Please Don't Go

He felt like he was drowning.

She was about to drown.

Josefine Resendiz is struggling to figure out her life. Between her complicated relationship with grief and not knowing how to feel what she can't understand, she's sinking and isn't sure how to float back up to the surface.

Daniel Garcia, a shortstop and a potential first-round pick for the MLB Draft, seems like a budding ray of sunshine who has life figured out—at least, that's what everyone assumes. On the surface he's the embodiment of happiness, but beneath it all guilt and grief have been consuming him since his brother passed away. Unsure how to deal with his feelings, he bottles them up and masks the pain behind a smile.

That changes when he stumbles upon Josefine on Christmas Day. He wasn't supposed to be there, and neither was she, at least not for long. The night evolves into something neither of them expected, and when morning comes she's nowhere to be found.

He can't stop thinking about her. She wants to forget him. But fate seems to have other plans.

Once the semester begins, they find out they have a class together, and avoiding Daniel becomes difficult when they're paired as hiking buddies. Much to Josefine's chagrin, she likes him more than she cares to admit, and Daniel struggles to keep everything he's bottled up contained around her.

Hesitantly and unknowingly, they're opening up old wounds they wanted to keep closed, while feeling grounded around each other and unintentionally falling in love.