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༺❃༻ Once, I believed falling stars were just pretty lies written across the sky. But everything changed the summer I met him. ༺❃༻

Kaiden and I met as kids—two strangers on summer vacation, fishing off the bridge all day long and learning how to fly fish in the swift, cold river. The first and second years, it was just coincidence. Then our families became friends, and the trips turned into tradition—something we looked forward to all year. That campground grew into something sacred for us.

But everything shifted the summer we turned sixteen.

We slipped away for a weekend, just the two of us—no parents, no distractions, just us and the open sky. It was there, wrapped in the hush of midnight and the glow of falling stars, that we made love for the first time. That was the night we whispered our dreams aloud… and the last time I ever saw him.

He vanished without a word.

I spent years wondering what I’d done wrong, what I’d missed. But the ache never left me—not even after I tried to forget him by marrying someone else. I told myself love could grow again, that I could find safety in someone else’s arms.

But when I found out I was pregnant, my husband gave me a cruel ultimatum—to end the life growing inside me… or lose him.

I didn’t hesitate. I walked away.

And I ran back to the only place that had ever felt like home—the campground where my heart had once lived in Kaiden’s hands. The one place I could think. I could be one with nature, standing alone in the middle of the river.

What I didn’t know was that Kaiden had run too. Grief had swallowed him whole after a tragic loss. And by the time he realized what we’d had—and what he’d thrown away—I was already gone, already someone else’s.

Now, ten years later, fate pulled us back to the place where it had all begun. We weren’t the same people who once made wishes on falling stars and believed they’d come true. We carried scars, regrets, and secrets too heavy to speak.

But in the quiet between us, in the way his eyes still found mine in a crowd, I felt it.

The pull.

The ache.

The memory of something unfinished.

Maybe wishes didn’t always work the way we wanted them to.

Maybe they didn’t grant what we asked for.

Maybe… they gave us what we needed when we were finally ready to fight for it.

📘 Wishes on Falling Stars is a breathtakingly heartfelt story about the kind of love that leaves an imprint long after it’s gone. If you believe in soulmates, in healing through second chances, and in the magic of finding your way back when all seems lost, this book will steal your heart and not let go.

***THIS IS A STANDALONE NOVELLA***