Eight years ago, seventeen-year-old James Callahan dropped out of high school, joined the Army, and left behind everything he knew—including Olivia Hayes, the girl he’d called “Olive” since seventh grade. Now twenty-five, James is finally coming home. And no one knows. Not his parents. Not his siblings. Not even Olivia. But the boy who left isn’t the man returning. James comes home a former Sergeant with an impossibly deep voice, scars nobody knows exist, and eight years’ worth of secrets he has no intention of sharing. Then Olivia sees him. One quiet “Olive?” is all it takes for eight years apart to disappear. As old jokes resurface, late-night drives become routine, and a friendship they thought they’d lost slowly becomes something neither of them expected, Olivia begins to realize that James didn’t come home unchanged. He’s hiding something. Maybe more than one thing. James survived eight years away from home. But letting Olive close enough to discover what happened to him might be the hardest thing he’s ever done.