From the cover to the first 3 chapters this book makes you want more. This storyline is perfectly real and heart wrenching. I may be a half of a century old physically but emotionally I am still a young coed who wants to read about the girl getting the guy, about the love and the angst, about the happy ending. Tessa is real like you envision yourself if you were in her shoes. You can imagine how she feels and you laugh and cry when she laughs and cries. These two have been through much from book 1 and 2, but you don't need to have read those previous books to get the gist of how important these two character are to each other. Cole and Tessa, Tessa and Cole.