Matilda has always wanted more-more freedom, more love, more life. But wanting more comes with a price. Trapped in a world that never truly saw her, she's spent years suffocating under expectations, heartbreak, and friendships laced with quiet betrayal. Her mother warns her about the people around her, but Matilda has always learned things the hard way. And love? Love has only ever been a cruel game she keeps losing. But she has a plan-be perfect, escape to a new city, and finally become the person she was meant to be. The dream is simple. The execution? Not so much. Because the closer she gets to freedom, the more the past tightens its grip on her. This is a story of ambition, heartbreak, and the hunger for something bigger than the life you were given. But when you get everything you ever wanted, what happens next?

Heath and Teagan only agree on one thing: they don't want to be in a relationship. Teagan, who is busy finishing her law degree, needs a break from the stress of living up to her parents' expectations. Heath is following his passion and starting his career as a physical therapist, but his family's drama is tearing his life apart behind the scenes. As members of the same friend group, Heath and Teagan will be around each other plenty during wedding season, whether they like it or not. With no time or desire to date, the two come to an agreement: pre-scheduled hookups through the summer or until something real comes along. A situational relationship, otherwise known as a situationship. Their arrangement seems perfect. If their past doesn't come back to bite them.

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.