From the series: Stand By Me

The Fiction of Forever

About

A childhood crush. A reality show. Fourteen days to discover some feelings never stay in the past.

People say you can’t go home. They’re wrong. I did.

I returned to Nashville—to familiar places, old memories, and the one woman I never quite forgot.

Kiley Vanderbilt. Former beauty queen. Star of all my teenage dreams.

She never knew why I disappeared from her life or about the nightmares that came afterward. Now I’m face-to-face with the woman who can still make my palms sweat—and she’s determined to rope me into a reality show to prove a point.

Kiley is stubborn, competitive, and apparently still holding a grudge.

She should know I love a challenge.

Fourteen days of filming. Six camera crews. Hidden cameras everywhere. Spending that much time together is bound to uncover a few secrets—and maybe the truth about what really happened between us all those years ago.

Because Kiley thinks I walked away.

I know I tried to come back.

And this time, neither of us is getting away quite so easily.

A witty contemporary romance about a teenage crush, a missed connection, old misunderstandings, reality-TV competition, and finally getting the timing right.