Millennial Carlos Almarón struggles to understand the devastating and unexpected loss of his beloved on the night he was to propose to her. After his failure to return to his usual self, all but three of his jet-set Manhattan friends abandon him. One, Carmela Ariana, a tomboy friend from childhood and a victim of abuse that nearly shattered her hope for finding true love knows why Almarón's lover rejected him: she was under pressure from a hidden intruder who also murdered her. Ariana fears telling Almarón because he could push her away forever.

Almarón's road to recovery traverses a tightrope of daydreams and nightmares that take him back to the 11th century's Age of Courtly Love, to adolescent sexual escapades with would-be lovers in his pubescent and early collegiate years until, at last, he loses his virginity with a flourish!

The takeaway? If finding everlasting love requires us to face intimate truths about ourselves no matter how hard or strange, then Almarón's and Ariana's search helps us understand that we must learn to trust each other in the name of everlasting love.