Seventeen-year-old Abigail Lee has spent her entire life learning at home, safe inside a small, predictable world. Starting high school for the first time should be terrifying. Instead, it is where she meets Carney Drew.

Carney is everything Abigail is not: confident, experienced, and already shaped by a life Abigail is only beginning to understand. As their bond deepens, Abigail finds herself pulled into emotions and choices she was never prepared for, forcing her to grow up faster than she ever imagined. Because sometimes coming of age does not happen slowly. Sometimes it arrives all at once, in the form of first love, first heartbreak, and a decision that changes everything.