Chapter one to three (page 3-58) Main events:
Lily Bloom, who buried her father twelve hours earlier, sits on the ledge of a rooftop of a building she doesn’t live in and thinks about the stars and death. She’s on the roof to calm her nerves after delivering an “epic” eulogy at her father’s funeral, and she’s enjoying the solitude when she’s interrupted by an angry man. When the man sees Lily, he asks her to come down from the ledge because he is afraid she will hurt herself. Lily hesitates, but seeing his fear, she agrees. Once she is on firmer ground, the two begin to talk.
The man is Ryle Kincaid, who is training to be a neurosurgeon and whose sister owns the top floor of the building. Lily notices that Ryle is very attractive. She makes fun of her name — Lily Blossom Bloom — to Ryle and admits that her name is even more embarrassing and intrusive because she dreams of opening a flower store one day.…
