Ramona Hendrix is suffocating in her corporate day job, counting down the hours until the weekend when she can breathe again—working at a local music venue, surrounded by the thrum of live music and the chaos she secretly craves. When she’s offered a last-minute chance to hit the road with Atlas Obsidian, a gritty punk band in need of a merch girl for their summer tour, she doesn’t hesitate. It’s spontaneous. Wild. Exactly what she needs.

Frontman Elias Hawthorne is magnetic on stage and mysterious off of it. With lyrics that hint at a haunted past and a silence that speaks louder than any song, he keeps everyone, even his bandmates at a distance. Ramona is intrigued, drawn to the rawness in his voice and the way his eyes seem to carry the weight of untold stories.

As long drives and late-night load-outs blur the line between strangers and something more, Ramona finds herself falling into a secret romance with Elias—intense, unexpected, and impossible to ignore. With every mile, she uncovers more of the pain he’s buried behind his guarded exterior.

But Elias’ past isn’t finished with him yet. And as the ghosts he’s spent years outrunning threaten to catch up, Ramona must decide if she’s brave enough to stand in the fire with him—or if this summer was only ever meant to burn.

He is chaos and shadow. She is steady and light. Together, they just might learn how to survive the storm.