𝖸𝗈𝗎'𝗋𝖾 𝗈𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗈𝗐𝗇, 𝗄𝗂𝖽 ᴳⁱˡᵐᵒʳᵉ ᵍⁱʳˡˢ ᴼᶜ

"𝖸𝗈𝗎'𝗋𝖾 𝗈𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗈𝗐𝗇, 𝗄𝗂𝖽, 𝗒𝖾𝖺𝗁 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝖿𝖺𝖼𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌, 𝗒𝗈𝗎'𝗋𝖾 𝗈𝗇 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗈𝗐𝗇, 𝗄𝗂𝖽, 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖺𝗅𝗐𝖺𝗒𝗌 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝖻𝖾𝖾𝗇"

Ashley Mariano is the kind of girl parents warn their kids about.

She smoked. She drank. She partied like it's a profession. And she dropped out of high school before junior year was half over. To top it all off, she's seventeen years old and five months pregnant - a walking cautionary tale with chipped black nail polish and a sharp tongue.

So when her mother finally snapped - worn down by the late nights, the police calls, the growing bump Ashley refused to talk about - she didn't yell. She didn't cry.

She just packed a single suitcase, added Jess's name to the return address, and sent them both away.

Now, Ashley and her twin brother are on a one-way bus ride to Stars Hollow, Connecticut - the postcard-perfect town their mother once called home, full of cozy sidewalks and nosy neighbors and exactly none of the chaos Ashley is used to.

She doesn't know it yet, but the town that seems too small for secrets might just be the one place she can't hide.

And maybe-just maybe-that's exactly what she needs.