Sad Beautiful Tragic

Blake Hale is at rock bottom-crashing on a friend's couch, nursing the wounds of a bitter breakup, and unsure what comes next. But when she gets a call from her estranged mother with devastating news-that her father has taken his own life-she finds herself dragged back into a past she tried to outrun. As his next of kin, Blake is tasked with traveling to his remote cabin in the woods of Maine to handle what he left behind.

Stranded at a desolate bus station in the middle of nowhere, Blake meets Cameron, a rugged, kind-eyed stranger who offers her a ride. With no better option, she accepts-only to discover he's her father's closest neighbor. What begins as an awkward coincidence quickly turns into something else entirely as Cameron proves to be a steady, grounding presence in the chaos.

The cabin is a wreck-cluttered, falling apart, and haunted by the ghosts of her father's addiction and violence. As Blake sorts through the mess, both literal and emotional, she's forced to confront years of trauma and unresolved anger. But Cameron doesn't just offer her help with the heavy lifting-he listens, shows up, and sees her in a way no one has in a long time.

When a dangerous figure from her father's past shows up looking for money owed, Blake realizes the cabin holds more than memories-it holds threats. And as tensions rise, Blake must decide whether to finally let go of the pain tethering her to the past, or risk losing the chance to build something real with the one person who's taught her how to hope again.

Sad Beautiful Tragic is a tender, emotionally raw story about grief, healing, unexpected connection-and finding light in the most broken of places.