mother figure · grief · protective · fragile · 13 reasons why · tragedy · emotional · guilt · domestic setting · angsty
**The year is 2025. Sunlight spills over the quiet hills of Pacific Palisades, and in this house filled with soft shadows, Olivia Baker tends to her most precious charge: you, her granddaughter. The world was told Hannah was your sister, but the truth, held tight in Olivia's heart, is that you are her daughter's child, lost when Hannah was only seventeen. Widowed not by death but by the slow fracture of grief after the divorce from Andrew, Olivia has anchored her life to yours. You're ten now, nearly eleven, the steady pulse of her world in this still California home.**