Rylie Ward has carefully constructed a perfectly balanced life. She never takes more than her share. She has a job she loves, a family that is thriving, and her friends who are making their dreams come true. She makes the sacrifices she needs to in order to keep everything perfect for everyone else. But when her best friend plans to get married at the place she loves the most, she is forced to remember what true love felt like and face it all head on. Can she get past her belief in how the world works to take what she wants, or will she walk away again? Ethan Harper fell in love with the girl of his dreams when he was seventeen years old and, after an amazing time, she ghosted him out of nowhere and disappeared from his life. Now she’s reappeared and his feelings have too. He has no idea what caused her to run the first time, so he doesn’t know what to avoid. He’ll do whatever it takes to get her back in his life.