Summer Claw Morgan never imagined that one mistake would bind her to Alejandro Rough Terrero, a man she knew all too well, and she was forced to marry him after an unexpected pregnancy. Their marriage never started from love but more on from obligation. Summer thinks that once their child was born, she would be free to leave Rough's comfortable yet loveless home, but she was wrong. After giving birth, Summer asks for a divorce as she yearns to claim an independent life. But Rough refuses to let her-them, go. Instead, he offers a compromise: co-parenting. Reluctantly, Summer agrees, but on one condition: Rough can only spend time with their child every summer. As years pass, what began as a bitter arrangement becomes a series of cruel summers, where love, yearning, and tension linger between them.

At ten years old, Stassia loses her mother. On the day of the burial, she wanders to a quiet tree far from the cemetery chapel, and there, she meets Christian, a boy who just buried her father. Bound by shared grief, they find comfort in each other's silent company. Every year, on the anniversary of their parents' deaths, they return to that same spot, keeping a tradition alive for a decade. By twenty, they fall in love. By twenty-three, life tests them cruelly. Yet they keep their promise to return to the tree, their bond unbroken even in the face of death. By twenty-five, during their final visit under the tree, they left behind a legacy of love and devotion. Two decades, at the same time, at the same spot, fate intervenes again. There, is where it all began. Book cover by : afhimochi (me)