He was a boy who learned to answer silence with words. Raised in the quiet space left behind by parents he only knew from a photograph, his world was built on the safety of the page. In his stories, no one ever left. Then he meets a girl who is the opposite of quiet. She pulls him out of the margins and into a love story of traded secrets; his writing for her songs. For the first time, his life feels like a story worth telling. But as the future pulls them down different paths, their private world is threatened by the one thing he can't control: distance. Paper Secrets is a novel about the quiet ache of first love, the words we use as a shield, and the difficult journey of finding your own voice in the aftermath of a heartbreak.