There are two sides to every story.

Joshua is getting ready to graduate from his final year in high school. He has always lived in a small colonial town in New England and looks forward to new adventures in a university in Illinois. Autumn is graduating from high school and will be attending the same large university. She has spent her whole life on a small farm in Iowa, and leaving will be difficult. Their new lives begin when the two students wonder who this person is sitting next to them in their first lecture hall. Autumn and Joshua will be working to understand their two different worlds far from their families, and they'll need to learn to navigate their changing worldviews-together.

As the author of seven previous novels and a career educator, Richard Shaw draws from his experiences growing up on the East Coast in an old Cape Cod house and his interactions with students from inner-city schools to university. Joshua and Autumn is a romantic coming-of-age novel.