Basically this book is about a girl named Ivy who is extremely simple. She and her brother are moving in to a new home because her mother is getting married and even though some of her mom’s previous relationships have not worked out, Ivy is trying hard to at least put on the act, for her younger brother Philip, that she thinks this will all work out. At one point, one of her mom’s ex’s threw her into a pool at the age of four, and since then she has been terrified of the water. Her new stepbrother Gregory reeks of eeriness. He just always seems to throw her off edge no matter how much she tries to like him. Ironically, her best friend claims to be in love with him and invites him everywhere, for everything. Everything is headed down hill until she meets her crush, Tristan, the best swimmer at her school, at her mother’s dinner, in a closet, with her brother, with carrots up his nose and celery in his ears. But the thing she finds most outstanding is that her brother, for the first time in months, was laughing again. Again and again Tristan makes his way into her life.
Tristan, without trying, can get any girl in the school, and yet, he is set on Ivy. He never pushes her to do anything she is set against, however he, of all people, manages to teach her how to swim. His patient personality allows him to use his experience to not only teach Ivy to trust but also he gives Phillip a reason to laugh again.
Though everything seems to be heading in the right direction, I think we all know that something bad is about to happen because conflict is necessary in every book. In this story, the conflict is represented as a car crash. There were only two people in the car that day and the accident was not accidental. Someone outside of the equation caused the accident trying to kill Ivy, however, she wasn’t killed. Tristan was. All throughout their relationship, Tristan and Ivy have only ever had one conflict: her angels. Ivy believes in them with all her heart and prays to them in a situation of need and Tristan thinks that they are imaginary, solely a source of confidence for her. However now the tables are turned when Tristan has become an angel and Ivy is so devastated she refuses to believe. Tristan has been given a deadline and if he can make Ivy believe in angels again, then he can be given another chance. He does whatever he can to help Ivy believe, to make her trust her own instincts.
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