The time of the Gathering occurs every hundred years and this time will be Aeran's first. The big spring event is the most important moment of the century for everyone invited and those they represent. Aeran's family have told him what to expect, what to do and what to say, but that doesn't calm his growing nerves. Aeran will be the one representing his whole family and must be respectable, polite and accommodating to all. There is just one unexpected problem his family didn't explain or account for... Genevieve.