Cornelius Blackwell spends his rather calm life in a remote town in the Scottish Highlands helping out in his father's bookshop, reading and occasionally watching the "Doctor's" daughter run her errands. Nobody knows this mysterious girl and contents themselves with leaving it at that, because around her father, with whom she lives beyond the woods, terrifying stories entwine.
But one day, she suddenly appears in the bookshop and Cornelius' tranquil life comes to an end.
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.