When Claire Dawson, a quietly successful children’s book illustrator living in Boston, returns to her hometown Willow Sound to help her aunt recover from a minor injury, she finds a dusty shoebox in the attic filled with “predictions” she and her childhood best friend Evan Hartley wrote when they were twelve—silly things like “We’ll both learn to play guitar” and “We’ll see a shooting star on the same night.” The predictions start coming true again. And the last one Claire barely remembers writing — “We fall in love.” As Willow Sound prepares for its annual Wish Lantern Festival, Claire and Evan are pulled together by a series of small, uncanny coincidences that feel like the universe nudging them toward something they once believed in. Except Claire isn’t planning to stay. And Evan—now a high-school science teacher who no longer believes in magic—can’t risk hoping for something that might disappear again.