Jessie Ahuja, an aspiring engineer and studious student, and Ravi Kumar, a good-looking, popular, and privileged very rich kid are thrown together at college, due to their desire for the same library study space. When a campus prank locks them in the library's ghostly and abandoned tower, they discover a package of letters hidden in Jane Austen's Persuasion, written by two student lovers 20 years previously, who had mysteriously disappeared during a fire in the library's tower. They were thought to have perished in the fire, but the bodies were never found. Jessie and Ravi agree to read the letters together to try to solve the mystery of the missing student lovers. They also begin on a journey of an on-again, off-again romance. Jessie is confused about their relationship and knows she is not acceptable to his family. ( )