New life in New York, Stellar knew that a fresh start away from London would start new opportunities, she would be more confident, more bold, more hardworking, more fun! And yet when she finds herself dragging emotional and physical baggage from back home, she meets her first challenge, and she won't be one to back down. - Jon, mechanic in Brooklyn, he's gone long enough in his life not trying to please anyone, how? Not letting anyone close enough, what's the point? He's very happy with how things are right now, mostly peaceful But when a very opinionated British girl needs his help a random night in New York, he wonders if he'll ever see her again, better not, that weird tightness in his chest when she speaks can't be good.

Allie has lived next door to Jon for as long as she can remember. He's always been just... there, the quiet house beyond the fence line, the man who keeps to himself, the one who never quite joins the rest of the world. Now she's freshly twenty-one, and everything feels different. He's thirty-five, a retired actor who left Hollywood behind for a quieter life, and he still doesn't belong to anyone, or at least that's what he seems to want people to believe. But distance has a way of changing shape when you've spent years growing up just out of reach of someone.