It’s the summer after high school ends and everyone is moving on, winning scholarships, traveling the world, heading to university, everyone except Milo Dark. Milo feels his life is stuck on pause. His girlfriend is a hundred miles away, his friends have all abandoned him for other pursuits and he’s convinced he missed the memo reminding him to plan out the rest of his life. Then Layla Montgomery barrels back into his life after four years without so much as a text message. As kids, Milo and Layla were family friends who shared everything: hiding out in her treehouse, sharing secrets made at midnight, and sunny afternoons at the river. But they haven’t spoken since her mother’s funeral. Layla has fallen apart since that day; she pushed away her dad, dropped out of school and recently followed her on again off again boyfriend back to town because she has nowhere else to go. Not that she’s letting on how tough thigs have been. What begins as innocent banter between old friends, Milo and