She’s the girl who can walk into a room and make it brighter, who remembers everyone’s name, who always has a smile to give and somehow makes even the quietest person feel like they belong. With her best friend Orla by her side and a sprawling group of friends around them, fifth year is supposed to be simple. Then Johnny Kavanagh arrives. New school, new country, new life. When his dad takes a new job in Scotland, Johnny is forced to leave Ireland behind and start over at St. Callum’s Academy, expecting nothing more than to get through the year until life feels familiar again. He doesn’t expect her. At first, she’s just Orla’s friend—the bubbly fifth-year girl who welcomes him into the group without a second thought. Then she’s the girl he always seems to end up beside, the one who makes him laugh when he doesn’t feel like smiling, the one who somehow makes Scotland feel a little less foreign. And she notices him too. The attraction is there from the beginning, but there’s one problem: another girl in their friend group likes Johnny, and both of them know it. So neither of them does anything about the feelings quietly growing between them. Instead, they become friends. Then close friends. Then the kind of friends who know each other’s moods without asking, save seats for one another without thinking, and somehow always find each other across a crowded room. But friendship becomes dangerous when you’re falling in love with your best friend, especially when you’re both too afraid to say it. Johnny is trying to find his place in a new country while she hides the reality waiting for her at home, keeping the difficult parts of her life carefully tucked away behind the smile everyone knows and loves. She’s spent years being everyone’s light, but Johnny is the first person who notices when that light starts to fade. Between misunderstandings, jealousy, family problems, secrets, and the fear that admitting the truth could destroy everything they’ve built, falling in love might be the easiest part. Because sometimes the person who feels most like home is the one you’re most terrified to lose.