Call It What You Want - John Logan

"You don't need to save me
But would you run away with me?"

She is running from her past, he is running from his future.

After a wild youth in the Outer Banks full of chaotic parties, high-stakes treasure hunting and grief, Paula Maybank has only one goal for her university years.
Be invisible.
Do not make connections.
However a random hockey player and his friends have a different plan.

Watching everyone around him fall in love, John Logan is terrified that he is destined to inherit his father's fate. He doesn't believe in saving graces, but when his best friend's girlfriend is rescued by a girl who seems to appear out of nowhere it takes one look and he is entirely done for.

Soon the spark turns into something beautiful, exactly what love should be, a safe heaven.
Yet, the closer they get, the heavier their secrets become.
They are both terrified that revealing their true, wounded selves will destroy the one beautiful thing they have left, completely unaware that the shattered pieces they are hiding from each other are the exactly what they need to fix each other.