During a weekend visit to Cartwright College for prospective students, Chloe meets Julian, and they instantly hit it off. They have so much in common, and Chloe is thrilled that when she starts college she'll have a boyfriend there already! But what about Eli, her best friend and sort-of boyfriend? How is she going to break it to him? And to her friends? Surely they didn't expect her and Eli to be together forever?
Through a summer of emails, letters and postcards, Chloe and Julian discover whether their relationship with each other, and their friends, is based on who they really are or, who they imagine each other to be . . .