Prologue

Seraphina was lonely. She grew up lonely. She thought lonely thoughts. She lived a lonely life. She was lonely. Then she met Wendell.
He was beautiful in only a way she could ever describe. She never knew what he saw in her. Maybe he was just as lonely as her.
How could he be?
Wendell had so much. He had a family that loved him. Friends who adored him. No one knew such a kind boy. Such a selfless boy.
She was different. She had nothing. No friends, not a very nice family.
How could he be as lonely as her if he had everything she had wanted.