Macy ?Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work
hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially
secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away. But when she runs into
Elliot Petropoulos?the first and only love of her life?the careful bubble she?s
constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy?s entire
world?growing from her gangly teen friend into the man who coaxed her heart open
again after the loss of her mother?only to break it on the very night he
declared his love for her. Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now,
teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more?spending weekends and
lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco reading books, sharing
favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults,
they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although
their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many
years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy?s decade-long
silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in
the possibility of an all-consuming love.