They say some loves never die. But what if the person you thought you loved was never really there? Sage's world shattered when her boyfriend died - and with him, everything she thought she knew about love and loss. Then came the notes. The footprints. The warnings about Elias - a man from a past she's desperate to forget but can't escape. Secrets unravel. Truths twist. And the shadows lurking just beyond the light might be closer than she ever imagined. As the line between reality and illusion blurs, Sage has to decide what's real... and what's worth holding on to. Heartbreaking, haunting, and impossible to put down, In the Background will pull you into a love story where nothing is as it seems.

"Maybe I spent so much time trying to convince myself that I hated you, that I didn't even realize how deeply in love I started to become." Emily Prescott is your typical senior in high school. All she wants to do is get out of her crappy small town. Well and stay as far away from the school's bad boy, Trip Evans, of course. But when the bad boy becomes intrigued with Emily as they are forced to spend more time together, what will she do? Will she continue to hate the bad boy image or will she fall helplessly in love?