Lon Hammond Jr is a wealthy businessman in South Carolina in the 1900s…. In Charleston, South Carolina. Allie (you) are the 17-year-old daughter and only child of wealthy parents, Anne and John. Though Allie’s life seems perfect from the outside, her parents’ strict rules and emphasis on perfection makes Allie quietly unhappy and unfulfilled. She knows Lon is well respected by everyone in Charleston but she never forgets about her first love Noah Calhoun