From the NYT bestselling author of Archer\'s Voice , Mia Sheridan, comes a small town friends-to-lovers romance.
And when that day comes, what happens to the one left behind?.
Only one of them gets to leave.
Only one of them gets to win.
They\'re both determined not to form any lasting attachment, but the longer they\'re together, the more hopeless it seems.
Tenleigh and Kyland find themselves turning from strangers to friends, then tipping dangerously close to love.
Then, one moment changes everything.
Through near-starvation, deep loneliness, and against all odds, he\'ll let nothing stand in his way--certainly not the girl who\'s his main competition.
But Kyland Barrett has worked just as tirelessly to win this scholarship, desperate to leave behind the town that has brought him so much pain.
Secure a career that could one day get her family out of Dennville.
With it, she would get a free ride to a college of her choice and finally escape the harshness of this life.
Her dream of winning the yearly Tyton Coal scholarship is all that keeps her going.
Tenleigh Falyn struggles each day to survive in the small, poverty-stricken mining town where she lives with her sister and mentally ill mother.
Mountain folk.
Backwoods hick.
Hillbilly.
Dirt poor.
From the NYT bestselling author of Archer\'s Voice , Mia Sheridan, comes a small town friends-to-lovers romance