Gat is the love of Cadence Sinclair Easton’s life—our narrator and the grandaughter of the family matriarch. They meet when they’re both kids, and by the time they’re teenagers, they’re writing letters, kissing in the rain, and having deep conversations about privilege. It’s the kind of first love that makes you want to throw up from sweetness, but darker.
Their relationship is forbidden because Gat isn’t rich enough for Cadence’s father. Because nothing says “romance” like a dad threatening to call the cops on a sixteen-year-old for dating his daughter. Gat’s reaction? He writes her a poem, because of course he does.
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Here’s a surprising fact: Gat’s full name is Gopal Patil. And he was raised in a tiny apartment with his hardworking parents. That’s a universe away from the Sinclairs’ four-man tennis courts and “summer” houses that cost more than most people’s lifetimes.
