Trust Me

Trust Me is the first book of The West Hill Story, a story of first love, long distance, and a promise that cost five years to keep.

April Hart is bright, sheltered and quietly determined, a girl with a heart full of dreams and a future she fully intends to build for herself. Kennedy Simons is a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, burdened by hardships that were never his fault and driven by an ambition to rewrite his own destiny. They meet the summer before their final year of school, working the same beach, and neither of them is remotely prepared for the other.

What begins as friendship becomes the only love either of them will ever want. But their dreams point them toward opposite sides of the world, and so, under the stars on the night of their senior prom, they make each other a promise bigger than the whole sky. Five years apart, with no contact at all, and then a meeting at the same hour on the same date, as the people they were always meant to become. Everyone around them would call it foolish.

April says yes, and she means it. Trust me, she tells him. I will wait.

Trust Me explores the sacrifices that dreams demand, the strength it takes to hold on to faith across an ocean, and the quiet courage of two young people who chose one another and went on choosing. Perfect for readers of coming-of-age romance and inspirational fiction, it is a story about the beauty of hope, the strength of faith, and the kind of promise that costs something real to keep.

What neither of them knows is that somebody else has already begun waiting too, and he is a great deal more patient than they are.

Trust Me is Book One of The West Hill Story. The story concludes in Finally Home.

Second edition, 2026. Revised and newly typeset, with an expanded final chapter.