As far as Blythe Baldwyn is concerned, her life is finished. Her best friend, Emily Sanders is dead, she has "hallucinations" of seeing her wherever she goes, and to top it off, she is blamed for Emily's death. It seems as if suicide is the only option for her... until Emily actually stars showing up in Blythe's dreams, talking to her and reassuring it's going to be all right.
Blythe ponders whether or not to live or die, thinking that it isn't really Emily in her dreams, until she realizes something...
Maybe Emily's death wasn't an accident.
Rhiannon Spencer, the sister of his best friend, has been the object of Max's affections since his childhood. The trouble is, she's nine years older than Max. On Max's eighteenth birthday weekend, he asks Rhiannon for a most extraordinary favor. She helps him, and they go their separate ways. Years later, they meet up while vacationing, and they find that the repercussions of that favor still linger between them. Will they go on as if nothing ever happened, or will their memories get the best of them?