Five years ago, Claire was a child star, the goofy punchline of one of America’s favorite sitcoms. Until a series of devastating betrayals by her manager-father left her broke, humiliated, and desperate to disappear. Now she’s just another high school senior in postcard-perfect Glenridge, Connecticut, determined to leave her past behind. Not even her best friend knows who she used to be – or that she’s scraping together every spare dollar to hopefully attend NYU. When a movie shoot lands in Glenridge – and with it, her former co-star and ex-best friend, Luke Cordova – it threatens to stir up not only Claire’s past, but also the dizzying crush she once had on him. Luke offers Claire a deal she can’t refuse: let him shadow her to research his role, and he’ll pay enough to make her college dreams possible. As pumpkins are carved and the woodsmoke-tinged October air grows colder, and she falls for Luke (again), Claire must confront what really drove her to hide – and whether she can step back into herself without being consumed by everything she’s tried to forget.
