The only thing that makes Amity happy are her grades and her rankings. She believes that everything else in her life is dull, boring and messy. That is, until she meets a girl who considers herself anything but boring. (the story starts during their junior year of highschool, and takes place in our world)

Alexandra Isabelle Alvarrez - a driven, Filipino-American 17-year-old girl who just wants to breeze through her senior year and fulfill her bigger dreams. But things go haywire when she gets partnered up with the school's untouchable princess, Alexis Gray. Julia Alexis Gray - a brilliant 18-year-old girl who keeps her distance from everyone. Due to negative experiences from the past, she has learned not to let anybody get too close. That is until she gets partnered up with another Alex. Will these two people with nothing in common except for their names work things out together or will they let their differences define their relationship, leaving each other's heart in dust?

England, 1882, Bedfordshire, Elsie, a young woman living in a big mansion with a vineyard is trying to get on with her life. She lives in comfort because of her marriage with a much older wealthy man, a life she never chose, her father, a baron, deciding everything for her. She has servants looking after her needs, but she is not happy, she feels like her life is not complete and she wants to find the spark. One day something happens to her husband. Her life is then turned upside down when she meets another village widow, Millie, a countess.