Always Been You

BOOK ONE IN EASTWOOD ACADEMY

Grace has always been the sunshine in every room she walks into.

She's warm, bright, a little chaotic, and almost always wearing a smile. Johnny is the opposite. Quiet. Laid-back. Permanently unimpressed. To everyone else, he keeps his distance.

But never from Grace.

They've been best friends for as long as either of them can remember, and after another year away at Eastwood Academy, Grace is back in Cold Springs for the summer-back to old traditions, familiar places, and the one person who has always made coming home feel easy.

Then there's Noah Jameson.

Grace has liked Noah for months, but somehow, every time he talks to her, she forgets how to be a normal human being. So when she decides she needs help becoming more comfortable around guys, she turns to the one boy she never has trouble talking to.

Johnny.

What starts as harmless practice quickly becomes something neither of them expected. Between summer nights, festival traditions, unexpected moments, and a friendship that has always felt like home, Grace begins to see things a little differently.

Maybe the person she's been trying so hard to notice her isn't the person she should've been looking at all along.