outline: a man learns how hard it is to move on from the death and loss of his beloved, despite meeting her twin sister, and she being completely different.

man: jake
dead sister: stephanie
twin sister: veronica

jake is a hardworking graduate student with a job in business living in honolulu, hawaii dating and living with his girlfriend, and soon to be fiance stephanie. jake is very much in love with stephanie and one night when she is out partying with her friends, the wild side he fell in love with one time at a bar, she gets into an accident and is killed. her friends, are injured, but no one else dies. two weeks later her funeral occurs, and her estranged sister comes as well. not knowing that stephanie and veronica were identical twins, he finds solace in asking her, what drove them apart. veronica explains that everything stephanie was, veronica wasn't, despite completely identical looking. stephanie was the party girl, the bad girl, the one who broke all the rules, and made her own. while veronica was the one was studious, had a plan, and left to pursue her dream around the world.

the theme of the story is the difficulty of moving on from someone, when they were so ingrained in your life, how love changes people, and whether to follow your dreams or follow your love.

it's told solely thru the perspective on jake for the first book, then veronica, thru the second, and intertwining the two for the third book

"It's a bitter moment when you realize that the person you fall in love with, isn't where your heart is."