❝The past becomes the present and history repeats itself.❞ - When Katie comes home a few months early from traveling abroad, she has nerve-wracking news to deliver to her parents. She's pregnant. Not only that, but she is stuck in nearly the same exact scenario that her parents were in twenty years ago. While Katie grapples with the decisions she knows she needs to make, it seems to inevitably dig up old wounds for her parents.

❝How do you clear the name of someone you trust when you barely even recognize them anymore?❞ Three years after Jim Hopper's capture, Joyce, now officially Detective Byers, has managed to bring him home to her brand new life in Illinois. Although she expected Hopper to be different now, she certainly hadn't prepared herself for what was to come. When Larry Kline is murdered back in Hawkins, she insists on trying to solve the case herself - but after all she finds, she isn't sure if she still knows the man that she has brought back into her world.