In the distant future, the world has been ravaged by disease which leaves few able to reproduce. Once you reach eighteen you must go through the Trial to see if you will bring the Next Generation and whom your partner will be; twins Bella and Edward go to the Trial and soon their lives are turned upside down when its revealed they aren't twins and that they're actually partners.

The year is 1978 and Isabella 'Bella' Swan is 18 living in San Francisco when she meets 22 year old Edward. He's got a job, mature and much different from the boys she's used too. Thinking it's only a Summer fling, they're both thrown into a complicated romance that'll last a decade; throw in college, other guys and moving to Boston, they're in for a long and complicated love. T/M