Abigail, Katherine and Daniel - a trio built to last.
You couldn't find a more perfectly mismatched, perfectly matched set of best friends: there's Abigail, the social butterfly who flies high and brings everyone along for the ride; Daniel, the magnetic varsity jock who's more golden retriever than ego; and Katherine, the quiet, beautiful observer - a poet and artist whose entire world is usually kept safely inside her own head. For years, their friendship has been the comfortable, unbreakable gold standard, a safe harbor against the chaos of high school and growing up.
But safe harbors are meant to be left.
The first crack appears not with a shout, but with a quiet, undeniable sting in Katherine's chest when Daniel finally gets a Serious Girlfriend. Suddenly, the sight of his hand laced with someone else's flips a switch she never knew existed. The comfortable certainty she felt about their platonic bond shatters, replaced by a sudden, terrifying realization: she doesn't just love Daniel.
She's desperately, achingly in love with him.
Now, as Katherine watches her best friend move on with his life, she is forced to confront the impossible question: Is the lifelong security of their friendship worth the devastating "what if" of a love she never pursued?
Driven by an impulse she knows will lead to beautiful, glorious, inevitable ruin, Katherine must decide if she's willing to risk destroying the entire structure of their golden trio just for one shot-one unforgettable moment of borrowed time that she knows, with every beat of her artistic heart, she'll never regret.