One time a boy kissed me & I almost died And so begins the story of Jubilee Jenkins a 28-year-old woman with a unique & debilitating medical condition
- she's allergic to other humans After a humiliating near-death experience in high school Jubilee has become reclusive in her adulthood living the past nine years in the confines of the Victorian house her unaffectionate mother deeded to her when she ran off with a wealthy businessman But now her mother is dead & without her financial support Jubilee is forced to leave home & face the world
- & the people in it
- she's been hiding from One of those people is Eric Keegan a man who just moved into town for work With a daughter from his failed marriage no longer speaking to him & a brilliant if psychologically troubled adopted son who believes he has untapped telekinetic powers Eric's struggling to figure out how his life got so off course & how to be the dad
- & man
- he wants so desperately to be Then one day he meets a mysterious woman named Jubilee