He left without saying goodbye.Eight years ago, Eli Prescott was supposed to meet Sam Navarro at Harborlight Station, the night they'd finally stop hiding, finally choose each other out loud. Instead, Eli got on a different train and disappeared.Now he's back. His grandmother is gone. The station that shaped his life faces demolition. And Sam, the man who waited, who built something beautiful in Eli's absence, who never quite stopped hoping, is the one person standing between the town's history and a parking lot.To save the station, they'll have to work together. Every day. In the clock tower where they once mapped constellations. On the platform where Eli learned to leave and never learned to stay.Sam has spent eight years becoming someone the town can count on. He's not the boy who waited anymore. He's not going to be left again.But Eli isn't the same man who ran. And some things, the brush of a hand over blueprints, the weight of a pocket watch kept for years, the way Sam still laughs at his terrible jokes, feel exactly like coming home.Six weeks. One restoration. Two men who have to decide if second chances are built on apologies, or on finally showing up.This time, Eli's not running. This time, he's choosing love out loud.A slow-burn gay romance about the courage it takes to stay.