She was the quiet storm. He was the chaos that always found calm in her.
Emma Langley has always been the good girl. The dependable daughter. The silent one carrying too much. But when grief guts her family and her heart starts unraveling, she clings to the one constant she's always known - Collin Hamilton, her tattooed, unpredictable best friend with a guitar in his hands and a guarded heart no one gets past.
They've always had a rhythm, the kind that never needed words. But the night Emma's world cracks open and Collin finally sees what's been hidden behind her smile, everything changes.
As Emma falls into a relationship that seems perfect on the outside but begins to twist behind closed doors, Collin watches the girl he's always loved slip further away - until he realizes loving her isn't enough. He has to fight for her.
And Emma? She has to learn how to fight for herself.
Told in alternating points of view, Where We Begin is a powerful, slow-burn love story about trauma, healing, and finding the strength to write your own ending - even after everything tries to silence you.