The first time I saw Anya I was shirtless and holding an axe. It was June, the weather balmy and Anya was beautiful, but that didn’t matter because I was drowning in my own grief. Anya wasn’t meant to be my saviour. I wasn’t meant to be hers. A perfect summer, an idyllic island, a stream of stolen nights. All bandaids on an open wound. If we were going to live again, she deserved more than the fractured shards of the broken creature I’d become. She deserved love.

Jeremy Marks has a crush on the stunning Jocelyn Tate. Jocelyn's disdain for the stage manager is well known in Mandrake Falls, as is her determination to marry rich. A prank notice appears in the Gazette announcing their engagement. Thrown together, the young couple form a bond even as their fathers try to pull them apart. But it is Jeremy's secret identity that threatens his fragile happiness.