Ivy thought she left Sheffield, and everything tied to it, behind. But when heartbreak sends her back home, she's forced to confront the past she's been avoiding. That past has a name: Alex Turner. Once best friends, then something more, now something much worse. Ivy and Alex are thrown back together reliving old memories, reopening old wounds, and realizing that neither of them ever truly let go. Between messy gigs, several rehearsals, backstage tensions, and a love story that never got its proper ending, Ivy has to figure out if she's still running away... or finally coming back.

2004. The musics trashy. The parties are trashy. And the 17 year old aspiring photographer, Isla Newton is in a strangers house in Sheffield, when she'd rather be in her bed back in Manchester. However after acquainting herself with Alex, the lead singer of the band playing in the basement, the night wasn't exactly a waste. After an abrupt end to the party, the two part ways with the belief that they'll never see each other again. That is until the two meet eyes outside a pub in Soho 7 years later. His bands famous. Her life is crumbling. Perhaps its fate? Isla Newton doesn't believe in fate.

If you'd told Y/N a year ago that she'd be spending the rest of high school in a city where people ate beans for breakfast unironically, she would've laughed and then probably cried. But here she was, standing in the kitchen of a house that smelled like dust and stale aftershave, watching her dad pour whiskey into his coffee at 10AM on a Tuesday like it was the most normal thing in the world. But maybe, just maybe, Sheffield wasn't going to be the complete disaster she'd anticipated.

"You're drunk. You're always drunk. You can't keep coming here." "I didn't know where else to go."