A breathtaking journey toward self-discovery and true love from the author of If I Stay. When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England there's an undeniable spark. After just one day together that spark bursts into a flame or so it seems to Allyson until the following morning when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life and through Shakespeare travel and a quest for her almost-true-love to break free of those confines.