A Familiar Comet, A New Orbit

Iiola Calloway wasn't running away. She was running toward anything else.

After a devastating heartbreak fractured her life in their small island hometown, Iiola Calloway trades everything familiar for the complete unknown. She enrolls in a university across the island, accepts a major she didn't choose, and desperately tries to build a new life in a new city-a life where she is someone else entirely.

But self-reinvention is a messy business.

Her sudden, drastic shift in scenery ignites a deeper, more profound change within her: a gender crisis that cracks open her understanding of who she is meant to be. Just as she begins to navigate this tumultuous new identity, she falls-hard-for her closest new friend.

The problem? That same friend is openly pursuing someone else in their tight-knit circle.
How do you find the courage to claim your truth when the act of speaking it could shatter your most important friendship?

Iiola left home to escape her past, but she's about to discover that the most dangerous heartbreak is the one she's carrying inside.