Seventeen-year-old Maeve is the sole survivor of the car crash that takes her mother’s life. While the world around her moves on, Maeve is trapped in the haunting aftermath of that rainy night—the guilt, the confusion, and the silence about what really happened. When she’s sent to live with her estranged father, a man she barely remembers, and his warm but unfamiliar new wife Julia.
Maeve finds herself in a home that doesn’t feel like hers, with a baby brother she refuses to acknowledge. Every corner of this new life is a painful reminder of the one she lost.As Maeve struggles with grief and guilt, she is also forced to confront the tangled truth about that night fragments of memory she’s tried to suppress begin to surface, revealing a version of events that could change everything.
In the courtroom, where justice is supposed to be served, Maeve is asked a question she’s not ready to answer: who was really driving that night?Caught between the need to speak the truth and the terror of what it might mean, Maeve begins a journey of painful self-discovery. She must face her role in what happened and decide whether she’s ready to let others in—or continue to isolate herself in the shadows of what she can’t undo.
In a house filled with strangers who are trying to become family, Maeve must choose: will she keep running from the past, or face the truth and allow herself to grieve, forgive, and maybe even heal? It’s a story about memory, guilt, family, and the complicated path to belonging—and the courage it takes to stop running.