Chitose Kaido – författare

After a messy breakup, college freshman Yoh Yagisawa returns home only to find she has an unexpected male roommate! Introducing himself as her old childhood friend who moved abroad, handsome Haruma Hirose is back to do a homestay. He's totally hot, super nice, and always there when Yoh's in trouble... but could Haruma's timing be a little too perfect? Plus, the house next door, where he claims to have lived-didn't the family there all commit suicide...?

Having eased her doubts a about Haruma, Yoh starts to relax around him, not realizing that he was actually behind the stalker incident. But when Yoh begins to assist the University Students’ Union, she finds herself in trouble once again. The group’s vice president, Kunie-senpai, has a grudge against her-and he’s threatening to take it out on Sawako if she doesn’t do as he says! In desperate need of help, can she bring herself to rely on Haruma?

After both Haruma and Touya confess their love to her, Yoh’s heart is in turmoil. However, there’s no time to dwell on it as Wakana, revealing her true colors, makes her move to trap Yoh and smother any potential romance in the cradle! With sparks flying and emotions clashing over a tumultuous amusement park date, will Yoh find her answer...?

Yoh finds herself unexpectedly spending her summer vacation alone with Haruma in a luxurious villa, with their time together bringing her closer than ever to recalling her forgotten memories. Meanwhile, Touya and Sawako take advantage of Haruma’s absence to investigate his secrets, and they don’t like what they find. But even if they raise their concerns to Yoh, will she choose to believe their word over his…?

Yoh’s relaxing summer vacation alone with Haruma is over—now she’s busier than ever with preparing for the culture festival! The Festival Committee is desperately behind thanks to the unrealistic demands of its chair, and the understaffed Students’ Union isn’t capable of picking up the slack, so Touya and Sawako offer to help in hopes of patching things up with Yoh. But Haruma has more schemes in the works, and before this festival is over, his manipulations might lead both of Yoh’s friends to make choices they wish they could take back...

Touya’s last-ditch attempt to take Yoh back does nothing but drive an irreconcilable wedge between the two, and even Sawako is caught in the fallout! With all her friendships falling apart, Yoh has nowhere left to turn but into her boyfriend’s arms—just as Haruma planned from the start. He’s removed every obstacle, and now nothing remains between him and living happily ever after with Yoh…but will a relationship built on lies really work out that smoothly?

Held prisoner by Haruma, Yoh can see no way out of her desperate situation. If she wants to save the man she loves from his own run away desires and discover the truth about her past, she’ll need to escape from his clutches—a feat she has no chance of doing alone. And with her personal relationships in tatters, she doesn’t have anyone left to turn to…or does she?

With the help of Touya and Sawako, Yoh finally breaks free of Haruma’s chains and sets off for America to recover her past. She’s determined to return after confronting the truth—but Haruma knows those lost memories are far more scarring than she could possibly imagine, and he’s certain that only he can protect her. With Haruma giving chase and her mother unwilling to open up, can Yoh get to the bottom of the tragedy from all those years ago…without succumbing to her own despair?

After meetings, partings, and arranged reunions…the couple that loved and scarred each other has finally returned to their origins and faced the truth. Now they must decide upon their future—will Yoh tear herself free of Haruma’s lies once and for all? Or will the two find their way toward a new beginning? This heart-warming final volume contains the conclusion to their journey, plus epilogues illustrating the lives of Yoh, Haruma, Touya, and Sawako a year and a half later!