DanielleJayne093
Skye is twelve when she dies-and wakes up believing she's simply made it home late. She remembers the cold pavement, the fear, the sudden dark... and then she's standing in her kitchen again, asking why there's no butter left. But her house feels wrong. Her mother holds her like she's about to vanish. Her sister looks older, harder, like time has moved on without her. Piece by piece, Skye is forced to understand the impossible truth: she's been gone for five years. The world kept turning. Her family fractured. And somehow, she's come back.
The Night Skye Came Home is a quiet, devastating story about love, grief, and the aftermath of loss told through the eyes of a child trying to make sense of a reality that no longer follows the rules. As Skye navigates a town that feels hollowed out by her death, a family reshaped by guilt and survival, and the terrifying mystery of her own return, she must face a question no one can answer for her: how do you live again in a world that already learned how to mourn you? At its heart, this is a story about how deeply one small life mattered-and how love can both save and break the people left behind.