When your parents move overseas, you’re forced to leave your life behind and spend your freshman year living with your Aunt Claire in Stars Hollow, Connecticut—a town where privacy doesn’t exist, coffee is considered a necessity, and everyone somehow knows your name before you’ve introduced yourself. You tell yourself it’s temporary. Just one year. Then you’ll leave. At least, that was the plan. Between movie nights with Lorelai and Rory, music-filled afternoons with Lane, endless coffee runs to Luke’s Diner, and a town that slowly starts to feel like home, Stars Hollow becomes harder to leave than you ever imagined. Especially after meeting Ethan Hart. The quiet bookstore employee with messy hair, sharp wit, and enough secrets to fill every shelf in Hart’s Books. Neither of you are looking for anything serious. Neither of you are interested in getting attached. But somewhere between late-night conversations, stolen glances across crowded rooms, and the feeling of being understood for the first time, everything begins to change. Maybe some people are only meant to be temporary. And maybe some people feel like autumn—warm, familiar, and impossible to forget.