Back Where We Started

Becca Freeman

Katie Eubanks left her small Pennsylvania hometown of Dutch Ridge to become a Hollywood star, leaving behind her high school sweetheart and childhood best friend Drew. When a promise to her sister brings her home for Christmas, she runs into Drew again and finds her carefully built life unsettled by old feelings and unfinished business. Told across alternating past and present timelines, the novel traces how the same ambition that once bonded the pair also drove them apart, and asks whether Katie's glittering career is really the life she wants. It's a tender, emotionally driven second-chance romance about growth, identity, and figuring out what 'home' really means.