In Bristle Springs, there lived a troubled boy named Daniel Ashwood. With only distant memories of his dead mother and a book as his getaway from reality, he wondered if his existence only adds to the emptiness he has been feeling ever since his mother left the world. He wondered if...until he met Gabrielle Swaby. She was everything he was not. While he rather use words constructed on paper as an escape, Gabrielle had people to confide in. While he spent his days beating himself up for the pain he felt most of his life, Gabrielle partied her troubles away. So, when these two crossed paths as obviously different people in more ways than one, what happens when they find out that they have more in common than they anticipated?

Johanna is a certified workaholic, and she knows it. So, when her best friend Ingrid uses visiting her family as an excuse for a three-month vacation in Australia, Johanna agrees to go, as she sees this as an opportunity to rekindle the romance that once existed between herself and her high school ex-boyfriend, Mathew. But then a sizzling encounter with a blond, heaven-made, handsome man soon alters her plans as he sets her very emotions into a frenzy. Johanna woke up the next day to find that this mystery blond guy was the best friend of the man she's trying to get back with.