As gossip and scandal dominate her friends' lives on New York's Upper East Side, Anna sails above it all. She has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend and she always makes her Korean-American father proud (even if he can be a little controlling). Until the night she meets notorious playboy Alexi 'Count' Vronsky and they are pulled irresistibly together . . .

Soon Anna must decide how much of her life she is willing to let go for the chance to be with him. And when a shocking revelation threatens to shatter their relationship, she is forced to question whether she can trust Alexi - before first love morphs into something much more dangerous.

A story about privilege and desire, about the pressures and dangers of trying to be perfect and, above all, about the dizzying, glorious, heart-stopping experience of first love - and first heartbreak.