authoramiina
Adelaide "Della" Fontaine has one summer to figure out who she's supposed to become.
Eighteen, freshly aged out of the only life the state ever assigned her, Della arrives in Nashville with a duffel bag and a lawyer's letter-the house at the end of Bellwood Ave. is hers now, left behind by a mother she barely got the chance to know. She has three months before real life is supposed to start. Instead, she gets a sagging porch, a stubborn magnolia tree, an aunt who isn't sure whether to be a stranger or family, and a bedroom that still faintly smells like someone else's childhood.
She wasn't supposed to fall for anyone this summer. She definitely wasn't supposed to fall for Tanner Hutchins, the boy who works the counter at the diner two blocks over-steady, funny, and entirely outside the mess she's untangling at home. But Nashville in July has a way of rearranging plans. Between porch-light evenings and the kind of easy, electric almost-something neither of them wants to name yet, Della starts to let herself believe this summer might actually be about something good, separate from all the rest of it.
As the Nashville heat settles in-honky-tonk nights, porch-light evenings, and a town that seems to remember her mother better than Della ever got to-she starts pulling apart the story she was never told. Somewhere between the letters she finds and the people who won't quite look her in the eye, Della has to decide what to keep, what to let go, and who she wants to be once the summer ends and there's no one left to tell her.
Set against the long, golden days of a Nashville summer, So It Goes is a coming-of-age romance about found family, first love, and discovering that home isn't always the place you come from-sometimes it's the place that chooses you.
Because not everything we leave behind is truly gone.