Emory Griffin is invisible, unemployed, a graduate-school dropout, and wanted by the local police.
Gerard Wells, the youngest member of the chart-topping band of brothers We the Wells, has fled fame for a remote island in the Chesapeake Bay, where he goes by James and moves into a crumbling Victorian house on the shrinking shoreline.
He has no idea that moody Emory is already there, a researcher who never meant to test his own groundbreaking invisibility work on himself or to share a room with a world-famous pop star.
With nowhere else to turn, they agree to be temporary roommates.
Close quarters and raw vulnerability draw an unexpected romantic spark between them, and as Halloween approaches, neither secrets nor feelings are easy to keep hidden.