Ronnie Vale comes to Hawkins for the summer expecting boredom, sunburns, and an easy kind of anonymity. What she doesn’t expect is Billy Hargrove—charming, dangerous around the edges, and impossible to ignore. When stolen glances turn into secret drives and late-night choices, Ronnie finds herself tangled in something thrilling, reckless, and entirely off-script. It was only supposed to last the summer. It never does.