Book excerpt: What makes a person want to take their own life? After Hazel accidentally saves a strange boy named Nick from this unforgivable fate, she asks herself this question more than once. While Nick's life is on the verge of rock bottom, she tries everything to convince him of the meaning of life again, and somehow she manages to get through to him, to show him that the world offers him more than constant darkness and disappointment. When everything between them seems close to perfect, a sudden secret comes up and makes both of them doubt everything that they've gotten themselves into. One misunderstanding follows another and suddenly seems to flood everything Hazel tried to built up trying to save Nick from drowning in the darkness of his past.