Hazel Smith is sixteen, and she's already learned that home isn't always a safe place. With a mother who hides cruelty behind Sunday smiles and a sister who wants nothing to do with her, Hazel's only peace comes on weekends-when she escapes to her dad's house. But even freedom feels fragile when you've been carrying secrets for years. Then she meets Donald DeGrate Jr.-the pastor's son who looks nothing like a church boy and sees everything she tries to hide. He's trouble, quiet trouble, the kind with scars of his own. And somehow, in the middle of all her brokenness, Hazel finds something she never expected: love. A story about pain, survival, and the quiet, complicated ways love can begin-right across the street.