After breaking up from her boyfriend, Kathlene Revival, had missed home and since spring semester was coming to an end, she knew where she wanted to go. Back home to the mountains of North Carolina. But when she is back home, Kathlene finds out some certain things about her own family but at the same time, she needs to figure out her feelings for her best friend, Atlas Hope. However, when family drama and her feelings start to unfold, some things have to end or stay that way. It seems like there is more than meets the eye. Could a spark happen between Kathlene and Atlas, or would her relationship fall apart at the hands of her own family?
JORDAN MACKENZIE has just lost her mother and brother, Nicholas, in a car accident while coming home from a first-place finish in her weightlifting competition. And while her father has also survived the accident, it feels like he's abandoned her too.
Once a top athlete in her state, her body is now broken and just putting on a simple pair of pants is painful. It feels like she's lost her whole identity in the accident.
All Jordan wants to do is hide in her room until the summer is over and then leave the town for college.
When Nate, a billeting baseball player with the Cape Cod Baseball League, arrives bright and early one morning, Jordan has already decided that she doesn't like him. She doesn't like that he will be staying in Nicholas's room and she doesn't like that he seems so friendly and smug.
Over the course of the summer, Jordan finds herself navigating (and sometimes avoiding) tricky relationships while trying to heal both her body and her mind.