All The Ways We Ended

In the quiet coastal town of Lowell Cove, memory clings like salt in the air. Inescapable, corrosive, and impossible to forget. For six years, Ava stayed behind, carrying the weight of unanswered questions and the echo of a name she never dared speak aloud: August.

He was her first everything. First kiss, first heartbreak, first almost. But when his brother Caleb died, August ran. No goodbye. No explanation. He didn't return for her. Not for his mother's funeral. Not even when the life they'd built between glances and promises came crashing down around them.
Now he's back. Drawn home by his father's death and the ghosts he thought he left behind, and Ava isn't the same girl he walked away from. She's guarded, colder, and far less willing to let history repeat itself.
But when proximity reignites what distance never fully extinguished, they're both forced to face the truth: that the story between them never really ended.
Old wounds. Long-buried secrets.
And a love that still burns beneath the silence.