You found me anyway

Amelia Parker has spent years watching people leave.
Friends who promised forever became strangers. Her first love betrayed her. Home never felt like home, and with her sister gone, she learned to carry every burden alone.
College was supposed to be a fresh start.
Then she met Ethan Brooks.
The campus football star with an easy smile, a loving family, and a life that seemed nothing like hers.
What starts as an unlikely friendship slowly becomes something neither of them expected.
But when you've spent your whole life preparing for people to leave, trusting someone to stay is the hardest thing of all.
A story about friendship heartbreak, healing, first loves, second chances, and finding a home in someone when the world feels too heavy.