Author's Note

Bella Callahan has spent every holiday at Briar, quietly in love with Carter Fletcher, the boy who has never noticed her. College at Sparrow should be a fresh start, a chance to escape the lake, the memories, and the ache of wanting him.

But everything changes when she runs into Carter's best friend Jasper at her new school. Handsome, charming, and completely unexpected. Suddenly, Bella is caught between the boy she has always wanted and the one who makes her heart skip in ways she never imagined.

A trip home for fall break brings Bella back to Willowbend, where her heart collides with Carter in ways she never thought possible... but Jasper isn't far behind, and the tension between past and possibility threatens to overwhelm her.