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The thing about addiction is, it sinks into everything like tree roots. For Maisie Maeson, it's always been there, tangled beneath the surface. In her mother's absence. In the sharp edges she can't sand down. In the ache for something that might finally make her feel whole.

Now, the mother who abandoned her is dying on hospice three states away. Whether Maisie wants to scream at her or forgive her, she isn't sure. But she knows one thing: she has to go.

So she blackmails Hillsbrook's golden boy into driving her. Rowan has secrets of his own, ones he's desperate to outrun. Somewhere between cheap motels, old wounds, and the wreckage their families left behind, Maisie will learn whether becoming your parents is fate or a choice.