One random night out in London never meant anything to anyone. But a year later, after finally getting accepted onto a dating app, you come across a familiar face who remembers you. What starts as easy conversations and late night phone calls, turns into months of growing closer from opposite sides of the world. You soon begin to wonder if a chance meeting from last summer was actually the start of something bigger.

Some people become so intertwined with your life that losing them feels like losing a part of yourself. For Sofía Carter, Joe Keery was never just her best friend's older brother. He was summers spent at the Keery house when her own home felt too quiet. Late-night drives, shared secrets, almost-kisses, and years of feelings buried beneath friendship and bad timing. The boy she loved without ever really admitting it. The one person who always felt a little too much like home. For years, Sofía convinced herself whatever existed between them had faded into history. Until Joe comes home. Suddenly, old feelings begin surfacing with terrifying ease, pulling them back into the kind of intimacy that once ruined them both. What begins as lingering looks and stolen touches quickly spirals into a secret neither of them can seem to stop choosing. But falling for Joe again means risking far more than heartbreak. Because their lives have always been deeply entangled, threaded through shared friends, family dinners, inside jokes, and years of history too complicated to untangle cleanly. And this time, losing each other might cost them everything that ever felt like home.

The Keerys have always been part of Ivy Harper's life. Growing up side by side meant shared summers at the lake house, loud family dinners, late-night swims, music drifting through open windows, and Joe somehow finding his way into every important moment of her life without either of them noticing. But life got busy.Tours, books, filming, work, distance. And for the first time in years, everyone finally manages to make time for six whole weeks together at the lake house. Six weeks of sunburnt shoulders, bonfires, teasing siblings, soft mornings on the dock, and feelings that have been buried for far too long. Because somewhere between growing up and growing apart, Ivy forgot one very important thing: Joe has always looked at her like she was the beginning and end of everything. ~ Disclaimer: This story is purely fictional and created for entertainment purposes only. It does not reflect real events or real-life relationships. ~

It's not fair, it's love God, I count my blessings from the one eyed dove It's her hair, her style But I fell in love with her gap tooth smile. When rising musician Sofi Hale and both actor and musician Joe Keery kept pretending it was casual. It wasn't.

A year and a half after their lives took different turns, Julia and Joe are living in separate worlds: hers grounded in the routine of her New York bookstore, his swept up in filming projects across the globe. But when an unexpected reunion stirs up long-buried feelings, their paths slowly start to intertwine once more. **Sequel to The End of Beginning**

Julie García built her career on control. As one of the most sought-after tour managers in the industry, she's known for running flawless shows, fixing problems before they happen, and never, ever, losing her composure. Her reputation isn't just important, it's everything. But control is a fragile thing, especially when it comes to Joe Keery. Because no matter how perfectly she runs his tour, there's one thing she can't seem to manage; the way he looks at her like she's something worth breaking the rules for. And in an industry that destroys women for far less, one mistake is all it takes to lose everything.