In which Riley Ran's flight gets cancelled and goes on a road trip with Noah Clermont--a stranger she meets at the airport--before catching her next flight. While Riley finds Noah intriguing as she spends more time with him, she fears to be with someone; she has been alone for too long. But what she doesn't know is that Noah, himself, has to grapple with his inner loneliness as well. p.s. - this is a standalone!

Joan Chatwin swore she would never return to Alpine, Texas. But 2 years after college, the 24-year-old has fallen down on her luck and found herself forced to move back home to the remote town in the middle of nowhere to help her family out after her mother unexpectedly passes away. But she is itching to get them situated and get the hell out of there as soon as she possibly can. That is, until she rekindles a friendship that she tried too hard to forget about with her father's apprentice, Henry Waters. He is determined to make her fall back in love with the town, but will she also fall back in love with someone she tried to forget?