When Lyla moves to Pleasant Hill, a small town in Georgia, she expects boredom, not the whirlwind of emotions and friendships she's about to find. Trying to stay under the radar in a place where everyone knows everyone seems impossible, especially when she catches the eye of a mysterious, curly-haired boy. As whipsers follow her through the pews and down the hallways of her new high school, she stumbles into an unexpected friendship with two girls - a dynamic due now cliaming her as their own. Lyla finds herself drawn to August the charming boy with a voic like an angel, who seems to notice her right back. But with rumors swirling, budding crushes, and new alliances forming, her once simple life becomes a complicated tangle of secrets, friendships, and first loves. Will Lyla find her place in Pleasant Hill, or is she destined to the loneliness she's always known?