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Sophie Walker has spent years loving the same boy from a distance - quietly, carefully, never quite brave enough to act on it.

Then James Smith, her best friend's insufferable older brother, starts showing up in places she didn't expect him to matter. At first, he's just noise. A distraction. Someone she's known her whole life without ever really knowing at all.

But James is not the person she thought she knew.

And the closer she lets him get, the harder it becomes to remember the version of her life where he was never supposed to matter - where the plan was simple, the boy was someone else, and her heart still listened when she told it no.

Despite is the first book in a trilogy about falling for the one person you never planned on.