“Driven entirely by love, he committed to a single mission: reinvent himself.”

But that changed the night he met Savannah. Around her, he was a different man—rigid, quiet, and riddled with nervousness, shortness of breath, and pounding heartbeats. “If I’m ever going to have a chance with her, I need to go to college,” he reasoned with himself. Driven entirely by love, he committed to a single mission: reinvent himself. Every interaction with Savannah Ascott was a tightrope walk. Her presence always upended his world, thrusting him into a blur of selfimprovement and anxiety.