For years, Marlowe Shaw convinced herself she was happy. Her relationship was steady. Her future felt certain. And if she kept moving forward, she’d never have to look too closely at the grief she’d spent the last four years trying to outrun. That was, until everything fell apart.

With her relationship over, her career gone before it had the chance to even begin, and nowhere left to go—Marlowe returns to the small Montana town she once thought would become home before her mother died. The place filled with memories she never wanted to face, where heartache still lingers around every corner.

And… it’s the place where Harrison Stallard still lives.

Harrison was once her best friend. Her almost more than best friend. The person she’s convinced she got it all wrong with. After years apart, seeing him again feels less like stepping into the past and more like reopening something that never truly closed. As the two are pulled back into each other’s lives through shifts at the flower shop, Sunday get-togethers, and the kind of closeness neither of them knows how to resist, Marlowe begins to realize that grief has shaped far more of her life than she’s ever allowed herself to admit.

Including the way she’s loved and been loved.

After five years of silence, missed chances, and unresolved feelings, Marlowe and Harrison must decide if the thing between them could ever be love—or if some people are only ever meant to belong to each other in almosts and memories.

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