The Weight of Water

Quinn has spent the majority of her life living in the shadow of grief after her brother drowned as a child.  Though she doesn't have any memories of her older brother alive, her mother retreats from the world almost entirely and refuses to make any new ones, her new mission is to keep Quinn safe from everything that could harm her.  Water, strangers, heartache, the unknown.  But that safety completely isolates Quinn until she isn't sure where her own insecurities and fears begin and where her mother's end.  When Quinn gets the opportunity to study abroad at an English boarding school for her senior year, her mother is furious she would even consider it and demands she give it up. Quinn's first act of rebellion opens the door to what life might look like if you actually live it.  When two new friends, Amelia and Oliver, come into her world, Quinn isn't sure she could ever go back to her safe, lonely world, even if it means losing her mother completely.