evergreen

Cove has spent her life learning how to fade into the background. Shaped by the dark chaos of her childhood, she has become an expert at keeping people at a safe distance. After all, it is easier not to need anyone than to risk losing them. But even the most carefully built walls can only keep the world out for so long.

When a favor for her difficult best friend brings Jasyn into her life, Cove finds herself drawn into the orbit of a washed-up drummer with a guarded heart, complicated family ties, and a talent for getting under her skin. Sometimes the people who unsettle us most are the ones who understand us in ways we never expected.

When their paths lead them onto the winding backroads of New England and toward Maine, Cove begins a search for the father she has never known. Away from familiar places and the life she has carefully constructed, she and Jasyn find themselves navigating old wounds, difficult truths, and the unexpected intimacy of being truly seen by another person.

Against a backdrop of rain-soaked roads, small towns, and the quiet beauty of a New England spring, their connection deepens. But love is complicated when everyone you have ever needed has taught you something about leaving. And when the past refuses to stay buried, Cove must reckon with the difference between protecting her heart and closing it off entirely.

As grief, family, and the uncertain futures they each face threaten to pull them in different directions, Cove and Jasyn must confront what they are willing to risk for the chance to be known, accepted, and loved.

EVERGREEN is a tender, melancholic story of love, loss, generational trauma, and the complicated work of learning to heal. For anyone who has ever mistaken distance for safety or believed that love always leaves, it is a story about finding your way home, discovering what it means to stay, and making room for something new to grow among the things that never stopped hurting.