Taryn Ellison doesn’t do relationships. She watched her mother fall for the wrong men over and over, and learned early what love costs you when it goes wrong. So she built walls and made a life where no one could get close enough to hurt her.

Then there’s Zion Wade.

Her best friend’s brother. Steady, patient and far too good at seeing past her sarcasm, past her independence, past every carefully constructed excuse she’s ever made for why love isn’t worth the risk.

 

She can’t avoid him. Not when she works at his family’s record label. Not when she’s at family gatherings with his sister Simone. Not when everyone around them feels the pull between them long before either of them admits it.

But Taryn knows everyone else doesn't: Good things don’t last. Love doesn’t stay.

The closer she gets to Zion, the more she sees herself becoming the one thing she swore she’d never be.

Her mother’s daughter.

Always Running is a slow-surrender, music-infused romance about generational wounds, emotional self-protection, and the quiet reckoning that comes when the life you’ve built for safety collides with the love you never planned to want.