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Eighteen-year-old Delilah Jones has always kept to herself the quiet redhead with a coffee in hand, earbuds in, usually blasting Taylor Swift. She drifts through her senior year at Crestwood High like a ghost, brilliant in class but distant, guarded. No one knows what really goes on behind her sharp eyes, and no one ever gets close enough to find out. Her past is a locked room, and she's thrown away the key.

Then comes Ms. Addison Winter, the new 35-year-old English teacher with a warm smile, a toddler daughter, and a complicated marriage on the brink. She's kind, passionate, and fiercely dedicated to her students especially the ones who remind her of herself. Addison sees something in Delilah no one else does: raw, unspoken potential buried beneath years of pain.

What begins as quiet encouragement and after-class conversations slowly deepens. Shared cups of coffee. Nervous laughter. Lingering silences. Both know the boundary between teacher and student is one they cannot cross and yet, the universe keeps finding ways to pull them into each other's orbit.