Bronte "Emery" Majors life was constantly filled with the literature world and everything that comes with it. The love child of a famous Manhattan author and a world pronounced musician, Emery lived and breathed the written word and the musical tendencies hidden in between the lines. She was taught that everyone had a happily ever after, that you just had to reach your peak of the mountain at the right time.
Her parents had conflicted feelings over chance and fate, each claiming one brought them together. After years of enticing the same argument, both her parents received their answer. It was fate (and genetics) that killed her mother, but it was chance that ripped Emery's father away from her too.
In an upstream battle against herself, Emery withdrawals from her world, her parents literacy world, and more importantly, the one person who actually understands her unspoken words amidst her endearing silence.
Betrayed by her mother's happily ever after, Emery tries to dig herself out of the town where her parents footprints and autographs stain every surface. She enrolls in college, somewhere new and untainted by her parents memories. But when she literally falls for an unexpected and past due shadow of her past, can Emery face reality and find her peak or will she run, taking her fragile baggage with her?
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.