New Beginnings - Calum Hood

Ivy Jacobs has spent years convincing herself that she doesn't need anyone.

After surviving a traumatic experience as a teenager, she's built walls around herself, using confidence, casual attention, and emotional distance to keep people from getting close enough to hurt her again. She doesn't believe she's the kind of girl someone could genuinely love-until one impulsive night at a club changes everything.

Calum Hood is used to being recognized everywhere he goes. As a member of 5 Seconds of Summer, privacy is something he's learned to value, which is exactly why Ivy catches his attention. She doesn't know who he is. To her, he's just Cal-a handsome stranger with a wicked smile and an unexpected softness.

What starts as one reckless night quickly becomes something neither of them expected.

Calum wants to take her on a real date. Ivy wants to run before she can get attached.

As their relationship grows, Calum finds himself drawing inspiration from their complicated connection, eventually pouring their passion, arguments, heartbreak, and undeniable chemistry into the music that will become *Youngblood*.

But loving Ivy isn't easy.

She's terrified of vulnerability. He's terrified of being shut out. And the more Calum tries to get closer, the more Ivy feels the instinct to disappear.

Can two people with completely different ideas of love learn to meet somewhere in the middle?

Or will the girl who never believed she was worthy of love become the one person Calum can't let go of?

**He thought she would become his inspiration.
He never expected her to become his home.**