Our story starts in New York, where eighteen year old Rose Sinclair made it a secret well kept from her parents that she no longer has any ambition to head to summer camp. Despite officially being an adult for months now, she still fears disappointing them even though she knows that she'll never live up to their expectations. It seems that the only exciting part about this summer camp in these woods is a singing competition that will be held there, and perhaps some familiar faces-from her former high school- that will accompany her in this brand new chapter of adulthood.
While running around the woods all alone, she falls upon a rusted journal and she whimsically takes it into the care of her own bare hands. To her nonchalant surprise, the journal Rose finds contains the untold early life story of retro actress Briar Rosenberg- and these well-kept diary entries don't hold back Briar's secretive past. What she learns is shocking but also comforting to know that despite having grown up in a different timeframe, Briar wasn't all too different from Rose and her group of musical rebel friends.
As for Briar Rosenberg, an aspiring actress she could've been, and a movie icon she became. Her longing dream to be a household name on the big screen didn't become reality until she was casted with fellow family friend and actor, Julius Phillips, for their 1954 live action "Sleeping Beauty" film. After all the critical acclaim and praise they received, Briar became Hollywood's next "it girl", being casted in all the major roles in Cinema.
But it seems as nothing is as it truly seems... years later, after acting for so long in multiple movies, Briar has grown exhausted of her fame and is tainted by the illusions of the Hollywood lifestyle. There's only one person that her heart tenderly recalls on a daily basis, and it's the one person she can't have.
This is a prequel/spin-off of my other story With All My Heart which is already completed. It's set after Chapter 1 but before Chapter 2. Cammie and Zach are engaged (finally) and living a normal life, or as normal it can be when your a spy. Rachel as Joe have taken a "vacation" together, meaning they've gone on a mission and need someone to watch over the Gallagher Academy and Blackthorne Institute. Their first choice was obviously the newly engaged couple Zach and Cammie. While the respective leaders of the school were away, they decided to do another exchange between the two schools. To make the exchange a bit more interesting they set it into a competition. Now add two Extremely competitve spies (ok technically 1 spy and 1 assassin) It's Gallagher VS Blackthorne. Who will win? Can Zammie make it through the competition or will their competitiveness drive them away?