Status: story in progress.

Love Letters & Suicide Notes

Candace Jerome is your average seventeen-year-old girl, except she has post-traumatic stress disorder. Thanks to her overbearing mother, Candace lands herself behind the walls of Sunnyside Mental Health Center: a juvenile psychiatric treatment center in the quaint town of Chatham, Massachusetts. Withdrawn and uninterested, Candace spends most of her days at the hospital playing along with her therapy sessions and actively avoiding friendships with other patients, until Cal Kavanagh comes along and refuses to take no for an answer.

The Manhattan teen is about as exuberant and magnetic as they come, and everyone in the hospital is drawn to his presence. Candace suddenly finds herself hanging out with the other teens in their support group, but it slowly becomes clear that Cal's positive attitude is merely a facade for something much darker, and Candace begins to realize that Cal isn't who she thought is and that she signed on for much more than she bargained for.