Darling Venom

On a school roof one Valentine's Day, Charlie Richards and Kellan Marchetti find each other at their lowest and promise to meet there every year until graduation. Kellan breaks that promise, and Charlie is left carrying his secret, her own guilt over a family tragedy, and a sister who blames her.

Years later, Kellan's older brother Tate, a doctor with a guarded temper, resents Charlie for the silence she kept. The more time the two spend in each other's orbit, the harder it becomes to hold onto that anger. Darling Venom is an angsty, age-gap, best friend's brother romance about grief, forgiveness and learning to forgive yourself. It deals openly with suicide, self-harm and loss, and readers sensitive to those subjects should check the content warnings first.