Every day is a new adventure at Ollie's Coffee House. For its newest barista, Nessa Everette, those adventures are starting to look the same. It's not the regular customers, the prep work for her first semester of college, or the weekly visits from the Syracuse Sisters Reading Society that are lending to her sense of monotony.
It's being alone.
Nessa left everything and everyone she knew when she moved away for college. But today is a good day. If only she could get rid of the shadows hovering at the corners of her vision.
Whither she likes it or not, Nessa may not be alone for long...