"Ask me to stay," he breaths out. I wasn't expecting him to ask me that. If I thought that was a choice, I would've asked him a long time ago. I would've asked him before our first kiss would also be our last. Told between two timelines, Ask me to stay is an emotional journey through the innocence of young love and reconnecting after spending your life on different sides of the country. A story about repairing two types of loves, your soulmate and a parent. Billie Sloane returns home from New York after nine years away, nursing a broken heart. Billie forces herself to reconnect with her estranged dad and narcissistic step-mother, Wesley and Eloise, whom she hasn't spoken to since the day she left. The day everything changed. Ten years before, Billie and Sean decide to keep an amicable relationship after agreeing to stay friends with knowing of Sean's departure into the Army at the end of the summer. Sean makes a promise to give Billie the best summer of her life and to live out the whole 'high school experience'. Ten years later, Billie and Sean run into one another leaving them both stunned. After Billie asks Sean out for coffee to catch up, they slowly return to their old habits. Spending almost every day together, they try to navigate getting to know each other as adults. Will they finally give in to one another? Or will old habits die hard? Read, Ask me to stay for a read full of passion and hope. A debut novel you won't be able to get out of your mind.