Across The Street

At eighteen, Riley Monroe is ready to leave Willow Creek behind - and everyone in it. Fierce, stubborn, and secretly sensitive, she hides behind baggy clothes, bold makeup, and the dream of becoming a renowned singer and bassist.
Her future is waiting at a top music university. She just has to survive this last, dragging summer.

But everything changes when Julian Hart moves into the abandoned house next door.
At twenty-nine, Julian is a man hollowed out by grief, a once-promising photographer trying - and failing - to outrun the memory of the woman he lost. He came to Willow Creek to disappear, not to be seen by a fiery girl who challenges the silence he's wrapped himself in.

What begins as sharp-edged clashes slowly turns into something raw and real - two broken souls drawn together by loneliness, music, and the unbearable need to feel alive again.
Riley dreams of the future. Julian is haunted by the past.
And somewhere between holding on and letting go, they find a connection that could either save them or shatter them completely.

Because some loves are meant to heal you.

And some are meant to break you wide open.