CLOSER THAN WE KNEW

What if the person you've known for years has been closer than you ever imagined?

For almost four years, Makaila has shared her life with Wyatt-her online best friend. Through late-night conversations, endless messages, and years of growing up together from behind a screen, they've become each other's safe place. They've never met in person, though, and Makaila only knows a few things about him: he's about two years older than her, and he lives somewhere she'll probably never see.

Or so she thinks.

When Makaila and her family move to a small town in New Hampshire for a fresh start, she finds herself trying to navigate a new school, unfamiliar faces, and the loneliness of starting over. But a series of unexpected coincidences leads to a shocking realization: the boy she's spent years talking to online has been living in the same town all along-and by complete accident, they discover they're attending the very same school. As their friendship begins to exist beyond phone screens and messages, Makaila and Wyatt quickly learn that meeting in real life is only the beginning. Growing up isn't as simple as they imagined, and neither is love. Between family struggles, new friendships, hidden secrets, difficult choices, and the uncertainty of the future, they'll discover that some stories are far more complicated than they first appear.

What starts as an online friendship soon becomes something neither of them expected-but that's only the beginning. Because some connections are meant to be found... and some stories hold far more than meets the eye.