Maxwell Wallace has spent her life drifting from one fixer‑upper to the next with her dad. She loves him-but she's ready for something of her own. College feels like her chance to finally choose a place, to build a version of home that doesn't disappear every time the paint dries.So when she meets Griffin Nichols, she assumes he'll be just another temporary connection, here for a moment and gone like the tumbleweeds she's grown used to chasing. But even after she leaves for college, Max can't shake the pull she feels toward him.As her new life begins, Max starts questioning everything she believed about herself-about being someone who never stays, about what it means to belong, and about the kind of home worth returning to.
