Cassiopeia Varner
has been living the life of her dreams for five years, and it's all away from the grasp of her controlling father. She's got everything she's ever wanted. Everything except Tal. She hasn't seen her best friend in five years, not since the night he left her at the train station to flee their hometown on her own.
Talien Vale
has worked hard to overcome the destruction of his family name at the hands of the Varner empire, all for the sake of the generations-long feud between Brunswick's founding families. He's done his best to put the past and his broken heart behind him. That is until his past shows up in the form of Cassiopeia Varner in the middle of the night over winter break.
Talien is faced with having to decide between his heart's only desire and succumbing to the threat that is her father's wrath, while Cass's only goal seems to be to rekindle whatever it was between them without her father knowing.