This is a second chance romance that deals with the realities of really wanting to leave your small town as a teen and then also what it’s like to stay, for better or worse. As a person who was dying to leave her small town as a teen, I identified very strongly with this book. Wilson takes the reader through a very realistic small town that’s lost its main employer (a steel mill) and is left with an empty-ish downtown. Now, can one woman with big ideas (Sam) save it? Ope guess what else I identify with?? 

Sam is an absolute delight. I will never tire of reading about neurodivergent grown women - mainly because all of these thingS I just thought were “me” for so long actually have names and diagnoses like ADHD. I also loved Kelly although he behaved really poorly as a teen (I did that too!) most of all, I loved Nellie’s author’s note and the way Sam and Kelly eventually found love for each other and their small town.