World War II hero Will Miner is close with his grandson, seventeen-year-old musician Dylan Mercer. So when Dylanâs best friend dies, he runs away to Grandpaâs to hide from his memory and his future. Dylan escapes choosing between college and rock-and-roll, disappears into the stories of eighty-one-year-old Grandpa Will, and discovers a surprise: before Will became a hero, he was a young rebel. Willâs tales of the circus, Route 66, riding the rails, and fighting a war, reveal heâs hiding his own losses. Where Thereâs a Will takes readers under the surface of one hot Tennessee summer, as grandfather and grandson spill secrets and discover a true bond between men.