Felicity is preparing to leave for law school, spending the summer at home before her world focuses on school again. A chance view across the lake with her binoculars has her peeping at a show she wasn’t expecting - nor was she expecting to find someone also watching through his own pair of binoculars, catching her red handed. Turns out the 2 men renting the house across the way were cousins, aristocrats from England on holiday.

Leo and his cousin Sig have traveled around the US while Leo takes a break from the pressures of learning the family business and preparing to take over for his ailing father. His family has certain expectations of him that though he knows he will step into, are chafing a little as he prepares to take them on.

Leo and Felicity spend the summer in each others’ company, determined to keep things light and have a little fun before they each take their next steps. When they part at the end of the summer, neither could have planned for the feelings that developed or the way they would feel once they continued on their predetermined paths.

This story took me a bit to really get into. I struggled with the characters during their summer fling, knowing they had a time limit to their attraction. But also knowing something big was coming, I just wanted to get to the second half of the book. But when I got there, I could not have imagined what was in store for these characters. I was shocked and surprised at the twists and turns this story took through the second half.

Overall, this was a little angsty, a little sweet, and a little heart wrenching to watch as they navigated the situations they found. Though sometimes it seemed like the odds against them were insurmountable, their connection was such that I had to hope they could find a way around the challenges.