When seventeen-year-old Thomas arrives for his freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, he thinks he is ready for anything. Anything arrives quickly in the form of Dondi Whyte. Dondi is handsome, glamorous, and rich?everything Thomas is not. Is Thomas really ready for anything?

Thomas falls helplessly in love with Dondi and the two begin a love affair. When it ends abruptly, Thomas is devastated. To make up for breaking his heart, Dondi invites Thomas to spend the summer at his family's mansion by the sea. There, Thomas meets Dondi's brother, Matthew, and discovers it is sometimes in an ending that we find our beginning.

This is a revised second edition of What Binds Us, previously published electronically by Carina Press.