Emma Durant is grieving in an adopted home, a smile plasters the walls and sunshine edges the windows but inside the paint is split and the floorboards are rotting away. Emma's house comes with no waranty.

Theodore MacCarthy is strapped to a box of dynamite, a blindfold of anger wound round his aching heart and his limbs entangled in a copper fuse that seems to be growing shorter with each circle of the sun.  Theo's strength can't break his copper chains, not alone.

With time slipping through their fingers and the reason to grasp it fast escaping memory, Emma and Theo have little more than a summer left of living rather than breathing - an altogether different concept.

When their paths cross only one of two extremes can occur: light or darkness, white or black, life or-- nothing.