The forgotten never forget.

It's hard to believe that a boy who didn't believe in love and a boy who didn't believe he could love himself would have much to learn from each other. But it would turn out that way, of course; with everything to gain and even more to lose. As it turned out, both Liam and Jamie needed to learn not to trust the dim lights and neon nights. This is a backwards love story.

In a dark kingdom where the heirs are only let free one day in July break the rules, disaster strikes. Following the disappearance of his grandfather a couple years ago, young Joshua escapes his dreadful castle in the dead of night to a river with a million secrets. Will the rumors of this horrid river be true? Will his sister find him in time to save the boy's life? Or was it all just an elaborate rouse to scare the children from leaving their home?