"I can't protect you from yourself, Michael!" Tears streamed down Everline's face, and for once, she did nothing to stop them. "You know how I feel about you. But this can't go on if you never learn to stand on your own and I can't stand by and watch you destroy yourself any longer." Everline Brooks had always been strong, independent, and level headed. Yet there was one weakness she had never been able to overcome: Michael Jackson. Bound by a lifelong friendship, the two shared years of cherished memories, painful goodbyes, and countless reunions. But as Michael rose to unimaginable fame, Everline found herself desperately trying to protect him from his father, from the pressures of the world, from the people who wanted a piece of him, and perhaps most of all, from himself. But how far can you go to save someone before you begin to lose yourself in the process? And what happens when friendship quietly turns into something more? When the need to protect someone becomes an overwhelming longing to simply be close to them?