Seyeon lives a quiet, contented life in the city. Steady, successful, keeping to himself and filling his days with purpose, his world is uncomplicated, peaceful, and solitary. Until a phone call from home changes everything.
The woman who once fed him, hid him, and stitched him back together is gone. Settling what she left behind means returning to the small harbor town he grew up in, and honoring a condition in her will that he can't fulfill alone. Someone else has to be there too, someone who left one summer without explanation and made sure he'd never be followed.
Seyeon isn't sure he wants to find him again, not after ten years of silence, but to move on he needs to put the ghosts of their past to rest. And bringing him back might mean breaking his own heart all over again.
A childhood-friends-to-lovers romance with found family, small-town healing, and a slow-burn reunion.