Eighteen-year-old Shay Louise Lewis has spent her entire life in a small coastal town where nothing ever changes and everything is quietly remembered. After her grandmother’s death, Shay inherits something unexpected: a handwritten list of twenty-seven places she once dreamed of visiting with her late husband. Tucked beside it is a final note: “I never got my 500 miles. Maybe you will.” With summer stretching ahead and university waiting in the distance, Shay makes a reckless decision—she’s going to complete the list herself. There’s just one problem. Her car barely survives the first day. Stranded on the side of a coastal highway, she’s forced to accept help from Jude Alexander Bennett, a mechanic’s son with sun-warmed skin, a crooked smile, and no plans for the future beyond the next sunrise. What begins as a reluctant favour turns into a road trip that changes everything. From forgotten seaside towns to empty midnight diners, cliffside viewpoints to late-night petrol stations, Shay and Jude collect more than miles—they collect memories, arguments, laughter, silence, and something neither of them knows how to name. But while Shay is learning how to let go of grief, Jude is hiding something he refuses to say out loud—something that makes every mile feel both infinite and temporary. And as the road stretches further than either of them expected, Shay has to decide: Whether people are meant to stay for the whole journey… Or whether some are only meant to change the direction of it.