A Found Family Romance

Olive has never known what it’s like to feel safe. She’s spent her life navigating a home that doesn’t love her back, doing whatever it takes to survive. But she’s smart. She has a plan. And as long as she keeps moving forward, she won’t end up like her mother.

Then she meets Hawthorn Strong. And his sister, Willow. And the entire Strong family—people who don’t just offer her a place to exist but a place to belong. For the first time, she’s not just surviving. She’s living.

Hawthorn is steady, patient, and impossible to ignore. And Olive? She’s a mess of contradictions—guarded but desperate to be seen, terrified but longing to be loved. The more time she spends with him, the more she wants to believe she could have this. Him. Them. A future.

But love has never come without conditions in Olive’s world. And when the past she’s been running from threatens to pull her back under, she has to decide if she’s willing to fight for the life—and the love—she never thought she deserved.

Perfect, To Me is an emotional story about breaking free, finding home in the people who choose you, and learning that real love doesn’t make you earn it—it makes you believe you’re worthy of it.