"Who is he? And who's memories are these that continue to haunt me through the night?" Rose Keller meets the boy with the startling gold eyes, after moving to a small town in Massachusetts,. She doesn't know him, but he seems to know her. But before she can unravel the mystery that is Eli, he disappears.Thirteen months later, Rose is starting a new life in Lyme, Connecticut, as a first year art student, determined to forget about the boy from her past. But how can she do that when something older than time is pulling her back to him? Cursed with eternal life, Eli Austen has waited the centuries it would take to finally break the bonds that have kept him in this world, and kill the woman who cursed him to his fate. But in order to do so, he must keep Rose at a distance. Eli knows this story way too well. There are only two ways that being with Rose could end.