Sylvania. It is a place where every person is given a neclace at birth and they have to keep up with it throughout their entire lives. The necklace is a small circle that is designed to help each person find their soul mate that is decided for them at birth. When ever you are getting closer to this person, the circle heats up. When you get farther away from this person, the circle gets cold. Before the age of 14, the females and the males are not alowed to interact. The first day that they are allowed to meet is when they are moved from the female country, called Femalia, or from the male country, called Arborline, to the matching countrty of Frebourne. Once you've found your match, you then move to Sylvania. If you don't find a match by the time you are 16, you are put into a program that will put you in the same city as your match. If you don't find your match byt the time you are 18, you are then removed from the system. None of the citizens of Sylvania are quite sure how it is possible to be removed from the system. No one ever questioned the system. Anyone who did, was removed from the system. Monica Andrews was no different. She had always beleived that the system was a great solution to what the people in her books called heartbreak. She had always looked forward to the day that she would get to meet her match. She had always imagined it in her head the day that she would get to see a male for the first time. What they looked like, smelled like, breathed like, and how they would talk. Would they talk just like her and all of her friends would? Would they all be like the males in all of her books? Or would they all be horrible things that she would just have to deal with? She didn't know. All she knew was that she was ready for her new life to begin. Little did she know that she was in for the adventure of a lifetime.