Everyone has routines. Things they do at the start of their day, whether it be to brush their teeth, take a shower and get dressed, or some mixed up version of that. Arthur also had a routine, except it had a name. Hell, it had a number in his bloody phone.

For Arthur, it had been one bad relationship after another, usually with the same type of people and ending in the same type of way. Blond, rich, and easy. That was his type and look how far that had gotten him. Just another scar to add to his heart. It isn't until a chance encounter at a bookstore that he understands what being in love actually means for himself and for others.

Lovino never expected to catch the interests of a dragon. He didn't even know how he did it. It was just an ordinary day, he was going home, and whoosh—He was gone. Snatched up by a giant dragon and his razor claws. Only the good graces of one man keeps the dragon from eating him, but in exchange for that safety, he gives up his freedom.

Arthur leaves his Italian lover to go on a business trip, but when he returns, Lovino has disappeared like he was never there at all. He uses his skills and friends to locate his lost lover, but as they get closer to finding Lovino, the farther Arthur feels he actually is. Things about Lovino come to light, and Arthur begins to question all he ever knew about the man he loved.

That idiot just had to get sick and leave Lovino to find himself a ride home. Fortunately, there's a certain student president that takes his job far too seriously. Lovino just has to be careful he doesn't get his little operation discovered by the most law-abiding bastard in his school.

Lovino and Arthur live together, though they have never met, and Lovino would prefer it stayed that way. He doesn't care for human interaction anymore, but when an accident attracts the attention of his housemate, he has to face the man he managed to avoid for two years and all the troubles he'd tried to escape by shutting himself away.

During a fierce storm, Arthur is throw from his ship and into the unforgiving sea. Only when, echoing in the waters around him, a voice rouses the will to fight and he finds a way to the surface. Swimming himself to an nearby island, Arthur lays exhausted and delusional on the shore until an angel eases him into slumber.

There is Winter and there is Summer. Two completely different worlds. Arthur has always felt an attraction to the green land, but he never considered ever crossing. Of course, that was before he met Lovino, a child of Summer, desperate to escape his homeland.