He is going back home. She is trying to find a home. Katherine Colby has spent her short eighteen years as a reserved, passive player in her own life. Getting her first boyfriend and moving in with him right out of high school was the first time she really thought for herself. Little did she know, she was heading into a year-long relationship that would turn sour, leaving them broken, and her with a new determination to find a life of her own outside of Delaware. Decker Jeffreys knows a thing or two about broken relationships. He knows some are worth fixing, like the family he abandoned in search of his own fresh start when he ended up in Katherine’s home state, and some are beyond repair, like the girlfriend he’s given this past year of his life to. The official end of his own relationship is the push he needs to go back to Colorado, to the place and the people who mattered first in the hope that he can fix his mistakes. Decker and Katherine have spent a year fighting their mutual attraction, sticking to casual conversations, but now, their pasts have pushed them together on a road trip across the country ... with nobody between them. But the past can also work against you. Sometimes, the past can keep you from having a future. And sometimes, the thing you’re fighting against is the thing you should be fighting for.

It’s been two months since Greta Albright’s blood was spilled by her own hands. Scarred from one too many losses, she fell into a spiral so destructive, she couldn’t find her way out of the rubble. Two months since she died … and was brought back to life. Aaron Beckett, the man who had been there to pick up the pieces of her heart, a heart unwilling to be put back together, has scars from that night too. An aspiring rockstar whose music died the moment he felt her heart stop, he’s struggling to recover from the near-loss of the woman he loves, spending his days distracted inside the walls of his auto repair shop. If only the job could chase away the nightmares that come once the sun sets. Now, after a brief separation, Greta’s back in Aaron’s orbit, her sabotaging ways seeing a second chance to wreck the life of the man who saved hers. Unless, this time, she saves his. Unless, this time, they save each other. Unless, this time, they can overcome their demons to give life and love that second chance before their song ends for good.

It has to be him. Sabrina Madden has held to that belief since her separation from Frankie, her first love. After aging out of their group home six years ago, she, Frankie, and Aaron stayed by each other’s side. Until Frankie’s addiction got the best of him and destroyed the family they’ve built. The fallout forced her to make a choice, staying with Aaron when he kicked Frankie from their lives on the promise that she and Frankie would talk in secret until they could be together again. Sabrina sees an opportunity for a reunion when Oliver Holcomb asks her to be his date to his brother’s wedding—one state over from where Frankie is living now. Oliver, the rugged and ruly, bearded mechanic who’s had his sights set on Sabrina since the moment he started working at Aaron’s shop, sees this trip as an opportunity to mend his relationship with his brother, strained by their mother’s death, and to finally have Sabrina for his own. Sabrina’s heart has never failed her, but now, for a second time, she’s being forced to make a choice. Feelings she’s refused to accept, because it has to be Frankie, are breaking the surface—for Oliver, testing everything she believes about love. What if the one it has to be isn’t always the one? What is the price of finding out?

Cosette Jeffreys needs a way out. After all, her brother found one, betraying her the most when he escaped without a word from the controlling lifestyle their father demanded. Even in Dad’s death, their family labored away inside the family restaurant, keeping his dream alive instead of chasing their own. But Cosette can’t waste away in the shadows of her parents anymore, and after some trials and errors, she finally finds her way out in the boy whose heart she broke when her own heart was in pieces. Charlie Goth never wanted a way out. He never wanted to be betrayed by his girlfriend and he never wanted to be forced out of his home after a betrayal by his father. He lost everything, including himself. Cosette barely recognizes him when she comes back into his life. The once sweet, nerdy boy full of light from her past now has a sour attitude to go along with his black clothing and tattoo-marked skin—and he’s not going to make her road to forgiveness easy. Cosette now has to fight her hardest to win back the boy she hurt, and to finally live the life she deserves. But betrayals have gone around, and she’s not the only one who has some making up to do. Can Cosette and Charlie both open themselves up to second chances or are some hurts too much to forgive?