"We choose family, always." 
 
As the only child of Georgia’s leading tech mogul, that motto has been our way of life for as long as I can remember.
 
I’ve been groomed and primed to take over his role since I was fifteen. Ever the dutiful daughter, I’ve done everything to stick to the plan, even if the plan was never what I actually wanted.
 
But people lie. Stories change. Entire family histories are rewritten.
 
When tall, dark, and devastatingly handsome Derrick Thomas shows up with a photograph that shatters my world, I find myself following him 700 miles north to Meade Lake—the one place that might help me find answers.
 
Drowning in lies, I cling to Derrick’s every word, desperate for the truth. And somewhere along the way, I end up clinging to him, too. Suddenly, I feel a change in the wind, a crack in all those concrete plans that were laid for me ever so carefully. 
 
“We choose family, always.” 
 
But after I find out what they’ve done, I realize that family isn’t always flesh and blood.
 
Sometimes, family can be strangers. Sometimes, strangers can be family.
 
I just have to choose which one I want to call mine.