This is the sequel (continuation) of After. Hardin and Tessa's relationship will be tested in ways she never expected, but he knew of all along.

"You deserve a girl that will let you forget your heart was ever broken and I can't be that one. I'm more broken than you!" -Adriana Harper

The passionate story of Tessa and Hardin continues as family secrets, deep betrayals, and career opportunities threaten to tear them apart.

For Kat Murphy Three Willows has been her home for all of her life. After the tragic loss of her father in a horse riding accident, Kat is coming to terms with the running of the Cattle Station, a difficult task for a young woman in a very male dominated world. Harry Styles was restless and feeling suffocated by his aristocratic upbringing in the English countryside. His answer was to set off backpacking around the world. When they find themselves on the island Paradise of Bali, the chemistry between Kat and Harry ignites before Kat must return to Three Willows. Leaving Harry with no details except that she works on an Outback Station, Kat returns to pick up the tangle of her life where she had left it. Harry tries to forget their time together - but can’t - and sets off to find her. When Harry finds Kat can he rekindle what they had on the island and will it be enough to bridge vastly different upbringings and opinions? And what of Kat's on again off relationship with her first love?

Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.