Before he discovered my age, he uncovered my heart. Bruised and abused, and victim to a loveless household, I shimmered with new life the moment he found me drowning my sorrows in a lake beneath the stars. A chance encounter. I was smitten; he was curious. But, as everyone knew, fate could be decidedly cruel. He called me Halley. I called him Reed. And my best friend? She called him Dad.