More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.

Jade decides to go mute after realizing that life is too short to spend it talking behind people's back and sinning through words. This way of thinking was triggered by the sudden death of her mother, and upon realizing that she could die any moment, Jade decides to do all the good deeds that she could. But, jade can't keep all her thoughts and feelings bolted up inside of her. For that reason -and accidentally meeting him through an unusual meeting- she begins seeing this college boy and spilling all her feelings and thoughts to him. _______________________ Romance / Teen Fiction