Before Hardin met Tessa, he was a raging storm. During those first moments they met, he realized he needed to keep her for himself- his life depended on it. After they got together, the world would never be the same again. Hardin and Tessa's dramatic love affair became a vortex pulling in everyone around them. For the first time these others are given voice as they appear before, during and after the events in the original After novels. Alonside them, Hardin's account of his first encounters with Tessa - which will change what you thought you knew about the brooding boy and the angel that loved him.