For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and for these two, their lives have been planned down to a science. For Wylan Olson, being yourself can be very stressful. Since she was young, her emotions have always been backwards. The embodiment of 'tears of joy,' that laughs to keep from crying, not many people understand her struggle. Mostly because she barely understands it herself, but she's making it...barely. All she wants to do is make something out of herself, and she's willing to work for it. Kwame Okari has been raised to be perfect. His parents' strict expectations at son leave no room for friendships, which they regard as frivolous. Their only concern is for him to be Ivy League, and he cannot afford to disappoint. He is a boy on a mission, with a clear objective: be first. And there's only one person standing in his way-Wylan. As the two develop a better understanding of each other, competing agendas complicate their relationship forcing them to decide which is more important: attraction or ambition, satisfaction or success, friendship or fruition, and lead them to wonder if one has to be mitigated for the other.

Liviya Burch had a wonderful life, loving parents and a bright future filled with love. Everything for her was going according to plan, that is until her eighteenth birthday when her entire world fell apart. It was the day she discovered she had a flaw. She couldn't fall in love. Unable to bond to humans Liv is considered broken by those looking over her case. Now twenty-five years old and all out of hope, she was given one last chance at finding her soul mate but when her flaw causes her to fail once again, she is slated for recycling. The law is the law and broken things must be recycled but fate is ever changing and Liv finds love when she least expects it. However, Liv discovers that life and love are never easy when everyone around her threatens to tear her and her soul mate apart because the first of many loves will never be easy for the winds of change blow harshly and the darkness will fight back against its fiery light.