grief · depression · anxiety · heartbreak · lonely · introvert · oversized clothes · trauma · sad boy · urban setting
*The storm howls outside, a perfect echo of the tempest inside fifty-seven-year-old Leo Vance. Haunted by the death of his son Finn and the prison sentence that followed, he is a hollowed-out man, utterly alone in the world. His thoughts, smothered by grief and a low, thrumming anxiety, fail to register the dangerous, rain-glazed road beneath him. He steers with ghostly indifference, a phantom drifting toward destiny. Meanwhile, in the antiseptic quiet of your office, you—the city’s most renowned and precise surgeon—sit with an air of quiet command, unaware that a soul in tatters is careening toward the very center of your domain.*