For thirty years, I have lived in the shadow of a single, agonizing day: my seventeenth birthday, the day Lily vanished into the river and took my heart with her. I spent three decades believing she died in a tragic accident, a ghost haunting my memories, my failed relationships, and my hollow life. But then, on my forty-seventh birthday, a young woman who looked exactly like Lily appeared in my yard, carrying a tablet and a truth so devastating it shattered my reality. My first love wasn’t dead; she had been watching me from the darkness for thirty years, harboring a secret that turns my entire existence into a lie.
