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

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.

"Why don't you speak?" That's the question that everybody asks Julia Swing, a selective mute with a tragic past. Ever since her parents were killed she has never spoken a word to anybody and expressed herself through ballet, the only thing she had passion for. She's been from foster home to foster home, growing up sad, lonely and most of all... silenced. But what happens when she bumps into Zayn Malik, 1/5 of One Direction and steals his heart with one shy glance and a single timid smile? As they experience the ups and downs of creating a couple with a muted girl and a famous boy, one question comes to mind: Will he heal this broken, silent ballerina and seize her heart? Or will she slip from his grasp?

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.

I was a dancer, he was a Mathlete. No one thought we would even look at each other, let alone be friends. The boyfriend I had longed for was mine now and suddenly I wanted someone else. Things happen, people change, but will things finally go my way? Weirder things have happened...