A neon-washed, emotionally intimate coming-of-age story where academic pressure, romantic vulnerability, and mythic symbolism collide…
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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
“Exquisitely written. Understated. True to the pressures of college acceptance, life choices, finding oneself, and possibly accepting love”
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“The future is melting my wax.”
With Princeton deadlines closing in, Virgil is running out of time— and running out of air.
Gifted, anxious, and quietly unraveling, he stands at the edge of a life everyone insists he’s ready for. His hands are steady enough to build machines, but they shake when he imagines the future they’re meant to secure.
Then there’s Charlotte—sharp, magnetic, and unafraid of the mess beneath the brilliance. With her, the noise fades. The expectations loosen. For a moment, he can breathe.
But moments don’t stop time.
As decisions harden into deadlines and potential turns into pressure, Virgil begins to fracture under the weight of who he’s supposed to become. Love doesn’t solve the problem—it complicates it.
Because flying might be what destroys him.
And staying might mean never finding out who he could have been.
Flying is easy. Landing is what kills you.