Jeremy Best, a Manhattan-based trusts and estates lawyer, has a second life as the poet Jinx Bell. To his boss's daughter Spaulding, an aspiring 19-year-old writer, Jeremy, at 33, is already half way to dead. But when Spaulding discovers Mr Best's writerly alter ego, the two become bound by a devotion to poetry. Their budding relationship offers them the possibility of enduring love, or the threat of tragic loss. Imbued with Greenland's signature wit, he explores happiness and heartache with a healthy dose of scepticism and an understanding of the reality of love.