Prologue

A hauntingly tender story of first love, distance, and the long journey home to yourself.

Maeve Adams never meant to disappear.
Not from her friends.
Not from him.

Ten years after Maeve Adams vanished from her hometown without a word, she returns for a quiet reunion at the diner booth where everything once began-and fell apart.

In the flickering light of old memories, she faces him again-the boy who sent a message too late, the boy who loved her in silence.

But the years have changed them. It's about coming back to a place not for answers, but to finally say the things that should have been said.