Every Summer, Until Now

Aurora Henderson is the kind of girl who never tries to be cool-and somehow always is. She's sarcastic, observant, and impossible to intimidate, with a habit of sitting where she shouldn't and saying what she probably shouldn't. Protective to a fault, especially when it comes to her cousin Dustin and his friends, Rory naturally falls into the role of babysitter, defender, and chaos manager.
She's spent every summer in Hawkins, building bonds that stuck harder than she ever expected. The boys adore her. Jonathan trusts her. Nancy... doesn't. And Rory doesn't care enough to pretend otherwise.
Under the confidence is someone deeply loyal, emotionally aware, and far more perceptive than people give her credit for. Rory sees things. She feels shifts in rooms. And when something is wrong, she knows it-whether people want her to or not.
Moving to Hawkins was never the plan.
But now that she's here... she's not leaving.