The End of Loneliness (Broché)

When Jules' childhood is shattered by a tragic accident, he's sent to a bleak boarding school with his siblings. They become unrecognizable from the children they were, each adjusting to their new lives in starkly different ways. There, Jules meets Alva — hiding a dark past of her own — and just as it seems that something more than friendship may develop, their paths abruptly diverge. The siblings become adults and are drawn back to one another, bound by their past, realizing what is important to them.
But as Jules realizes it's Alva — it's always been Alva — he will discover that though he may find her again, fate always has a way of intervening ..