Before the legend. Before the myth. Before history claimed him.Summer, 1962. A beach in Clearwater, Florida. Mary is seventeen. The boy sitting alone with a book on his knees is still nobody — not an icon, not a poster, not a song. Just Jim.Decades later, after the world has never stopped writing about him, Mary finally tells the one story no one else can tell: not the legend, not the myth, not the man from the album covers — but the boy she knew before any of that...