A girl crashes her car late at night after a bartending shift and calls her brother to pick her up. He shows up with his best friend, who she almost kissed a few months ago but they stopped it because of her brother. On the drive home, the best friend secretly reaches back and holds her hand while her brother is distracted and oblivious. Later that night, he shows up at her apartment after she orders Taco Bell. He admits he stays awake every night waiting for her to text that she’s home safe from work, and that he was terrified when he heard about the accident. He says she’s “worth the risk” of ruining his friendship with her brother, and she agrees. They kiss.
After a devastating injury leaves Y/N facing spinal fusion surgery and months of rehabilitation, the figure skater she once was feels like a distant memory. Now, finally cleared to return to the ice, Y/N is determined to prove that her injury didn’t take away the thing she loves most. But Logan, her longtime friend and hockey player, isn’t as fearless about her comeback. He’s watched her fight through the pain, and every time she steps onto the ice, he can’t help but wonder if he’s about to watch her fall all over again. As Y/N learns to trust her body again, Logan has to learn that loving her doesn’t mean protecting her from every possible fall. Because sometimes, the hardest part of coming back isn’t getting back on the ice. It’s believing you belong there.
Y/N has been in a relationship for a while with Connor, thinking it would be good, but unfortunately after a while he started showing his true colors, and Y/N started losing her sparkle, trying to make him feel better during every argument. Until one day while at work, her client Elijah noticed she wasn’t as sunshine and smiles anymore, and looked glazed over when he got his haircut.
Y/N is a young woman in Middle Tennessee juggling cosmetology school, salon assisting, multiple jobs, church, friendships, family, and the uncertainty of what comes next. As she works toward becoming a hairstylist and dreams about building a life of her own, she finds herself growing closer to Chase Boylan, a teasing, goofy, confident welding student who works at Home Depot and shares her faith. What begins as playful conversations and an unexpected friendship slowly develops into something neither of them quite knows how to name, while Y/N simultaneously wrestles with the possibility of leaving Tennessee, finding her calling, and figuring out what she truly wants from adulthood. As their relationship deepens, Y/N and Chase must learn that love isn’t about having every answer or giving up the dreams God placed in them—it’s about discovering whether two people can grow individually while still choosing to walk toward the same future.
19-year-old Y/N begins college torn between majoring in art or music, hoping a fresh start will help her finally feel like she belongs. Instead, she must navigate body insecurities, hypermobility, anxiety, imposter syndrome, loneliness, AuDHD, and Functional Tic Disorder while trying to build a life around the things she loves. Then she meets Noah Bennett, a confident, playful music student who quickly becomes more than a friend. As their relationship grows, Y/N is forced to confront the belief that her body and brain make her difficult to love. Through creativity, faith, friendship, and romance, she slowly learns that she doesn’t need to become “normal,” thinner, healthier, or more confident to deserve a beautiful life—she simply needs to stop believing that she’s broken.
