A novel about what can happen when a student at the prestigious Maxton Hall School in England sees what she shouldn't...
And about that, too, how shy she is, meticulous and driven scholarship recipient Ruby, who has so far only been interested in studying and working in the School Organizing Committee, gets into situations, that will make her see the world in a truer and more colourful way.
Ruby's family is fairly ordinary but harmonious, while James is the heir to an ancient clothing empire and the poster child for a spoiled, ill-mannered young man trying to "enjoy his last year of high school."
The book is about their attraction to each other and the happiness they find together, but which they have to fight for, and which eludes them time and time again. It's about, What is it like? to walk the campus of Oxford University for the first time, that Ruby's been wanting to study at since she was a kid, and wishes, that may come true. What it's like when they meet at the Oxford entrance exams far from home...
The book invites you into the world of dramatic first love, the romance of the student years and the thrilling circumstances that surround Ruby and James' world.
