Macy Sorensen is getting used to her ambitious but emotionally reserved routine: put in a lot of effort as a brand-new paediatrics resident; arrange her wedding to an older, well-off man; and keep her head down and heart hidden. But when she bumps into Elliot Petropoulos, her one and only love, the meticulous bubble she had built starts to burst. Elliot used to be Macy's whole world; he developed from a gangly teen pal to the man who helped her heart heal following the death of her mother, only to break it the night he confessed 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 reading books, sharing favourite 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.