For two years, Sam Winchester has been living what he calls a normal life. He’s left the hunt behind, pouring himself into law classes at Stanford and building a steady, quiet life with Charlie Thompson—a warm, sharp-witted girl who grounds him in a way nothing else ever has. Charlie knows Sam as kind, brilliant, and guarded, a man who works too hard and bears a few unexplained scars. She assumes his past is painful in an ordinary way—family fractures, grief, the sort of things you don’t push for. So she doesn’t.