Summer is Here

24-year-old Willow Sato is fresh out of school and trying to build a life that finally feels like her own.
She spends her days working in a cozy bookstore café, serving coffee and escaping into other people's stories. But it's the small art cottage left behind by her late mother that pulls at her the most-a quiet, weather-worn space where music once filled every corner and where Willow is slowly beginning to rediscover her own voice.
Singing has always been her truest form of art, even if she's spent years learning how to hold it back. The cottage feels like a place where that part of her might finally breathe again... if she lets it.
And then there's Lucas Mercer.
27-year-old Lucas is the town's mechanic-hands steady, reputation clean, and life carefully controlled. By day he fixes what's broken. By night, he disappears into speed, backroads, and silence that doesn't ask questions.
He doesn't get involved.
Until Willow Sato walks into his world and makes staying away feel impossible.
What starts as tension becomes something heavier-charged glances across quiet rooms, accidental touches that linger too long, and moments where Willow's voice becomes the one thing Lucas can't seem to forget.
Willow wasn't looking for him.
Lucas wasn't supposed to want her.
But some connections don't ask permission.
And in a town this small, secrets don't stay hidden forever-especially the ones that start to sound like a song you can't get out of your head.