Ellie Carter has spent years holding it all together balancing motherhood, study, and a carefully constructed life with a man who promised stability but delivered something far more dangerous. When a chance encounter with Kieran Hayes the boy who stole her heart and the one she never forgot shakes the foundation she’s worked so hard to build, Ellie is forced to confront everything she’s buried: the loneliness, the longing, and the question she’s never dared ask
What if the life she built isn’t the one she wants?
Kieran is older now. A rising star in a band that’s finally making waves. But fame hasn’t dulled the memory of the girl who slipped away, or the ache of unfinished stories. When fate throws them back into each other’s orbit, what begins as a spark of reconnection quickly deepens into something neither of them expected something tender, complicated, and quietly life-altering.
As Ellie navigates the wreckage of her past and the quiet hope of a future she’s never allowed herself to want, she must decide: is it too late to start over? And if not who will she become when she finally stops surviving and starts living?
