Emma Blake is extremely smart, quiet and driven to do well and get away from her family. She is given the opportunity halfway through her junior year to transfer to the other high school (Golden Valley High) on the rich part of the city in order to get more opportunities for college. Tristian Johnson, Golden Valley Highs heart throb, star football player and arrogant asshole starts to pick on Emma once she arrives. But Tristan struggles in school and his failing grades threatens to get him kicked off the team. And when Emma gets asked to tutor a peer in help she wasn't expecting on getting Tristian as a student and Tristan wasn't expecting to fall for her.

When Emma Hayes decides to move a college on the outskirts of Los Angeles half way through the college year, she expected and wanted to be an outcast that no one bothered but it soon became obvious to Emma that, that wouldn't happen when she meets her roommate Grayson Ryder, typical bad boy with a new girl every day There's an obvious spark between Emma and Grayson straight away but will anything become of it? Follow Emma through her journey of making friends, losing friends and maybe even falling in love