
Begin Again is a warm, funny, and quietly devastating campus story about starting over—again and again—until your life finally feels like your own. Andie Rose arrives at Blue Ridge State armed with plans, a color-coded future, and a secret: her mother launched the school’s renegade radio show, The Knights’ Watch. Within days, everything flips. Her boyfriend has transferred out to be closer to her—at a different school. A brutal stats professor confiscates her starter ribbon, which means she’s out of the campus-wide hunt before it even begins. And the only person who seems to see her clearly is a sarcastic RA named Milo who runs on midnight coffee and guarded kindness.
As Andie scrambles for work-study hours at the town’s legendary bagel shop, teams up with her bookstagramming roommate Shay, and befriends a brilliant tutor named Valeria, she stumbles into the secret recording studio for The Knights’ Watch—and straight into the role her mom once played. Behind the mic as the anonymous “Squire,” Andie finds the courage to speak, one real-time call at a time. But when a public fight accidentally outs the Knight and Squire live on-air, Andie’s future, her mom’s legacy, and her newfound voice hang in the balance.
This story is for anyone who has ever rebuilt after a heartbreak, made a found family from scratch, or dared to believe that the best version of your life might be the one you make up as you go.