Location Shared

Everybody's dot is home. Nobody is.

Sixteen-year-old Quinn Hollister knows exactly where everyone in her family is. Her phone tells her. What it cannot tell her is why nobody seems to be there when she needs them.

When the Hollisters move from California to a sprawling six-thousand-square-foot house in Halston Bay, Texas, they appear to have everything. Bennett, a successful cardiac surgeon, spends his days saving lives. Claire, an accomplished attorney, is consumed by her career. Their children are left navigating a new school, new friendships, and the growing distance between the people who share their home.

Quinn approaches life like a spreadsheet, quietly recording what others owe her while discovering that academic success comes with temptations of its own.

Her younger brother, Jonah, fourteen, can make almost anyone laugh. But behind the jokes is a boy struggling to find his place in a world where attention is easy to get and genuine understanding is much harder to find.

Their paths eventually cross with Wade "Boss" Callan, an unconventional educator at the district's alternative campus who believes that showing up matters more than having all the answers.

As academic pressures, questionable choices, family tensions, and an unexpected tragedy threaten to unravel the Hollisters' carefully managed lives, each family member must confront a difficult truth: being able to track the people you love does not mean you truly know them.

Set against the backdrop of modern North Texas, Location Shared blends humor, family drama, and the challenges of growing up in a world where everyone is connected but not everyone feels seen.

A contemporary coming-of-age and family drama about love, accountability, forgiveness, and what it really means to be present.

Book One of the Location Shared Trilogy by Micheal Wood.