2025 Next Gen Indie Book Awards Finalist! Emmaline Archer hasn't always made the best decisions, but this time when her misplaced trust lands her in the back of a police cruiser, her mother has had enough. Sending her across country to live with her estranged father, Emmaline just wants to keep her head low until her 18th birthday. But the folks she meets in Oakridge seem to have a different plan in mind for her.