Amara Skye lives in Avaland with her mother and two younger sisters. Her father has recently died leaving them in financial trouble. And with her being the oldest and her eighteenth birthday just months away she is to marry. Not for love but for whoever can offer the most money for their land. It will be an arrangement to save her family and one she will have to learn to live with. But it is not what her heart really longs for. Ares is a young man injured and lost in the very forest Amara was told never to go into. But he nonetheless finds himself being rescued by a girl. A beautiful girl with mesmerizing eyes. He has been exiled from his own land because he is not like the others. Ashamed and alone Ares, accepts Amara's vow to help him. But they must not let anyone ever find out about their growing friendship. And falling in love is not allowed to happen with Amara's upcoming wedding. Yet they are drawn to each other and Amara can sense there is a secret Ares is holding back from her....One that could change their lives forever.

When I was sixteen years old my whole world changed, Forever. It was the summer before my junior year when I became friends with the most unlikely person. And it wasn't like we hadn't grown up together. I had known David Taylor since kindergarten to be precise but we didnt run in the same circle of friends. He was popular. And I was not. But somehow our paths crossed and once that happened it seemed something changed. A friendship grew between us till one day it was no longer just that. It had become love. And that is when it became very complicated. And the things that would follow would not only change my life forever, but his as well.