On a cold, stormy night in the midst of October, six people enter a hotel room. By dawn, only five remain. Five months earlier, McKenna Macintosh is introduced to Carter Ford and finds herself drawn into an unfamiliar, intoxicating world. As summer unfolds, their friendship deepens---yet unresolved tensions and secrets loom, entwining their lives in unexpected ways. When McKenna and Carter enter the hotel room that October night, everything they once knew has changed, and nothing will ever be the same again.

It all started with Nevaeh's journalism article, which inadvertently pitted two brothers against each other and drew her into a love story straight out of her own scrapbook. Nevaeh has always been on the move because of her father's job, unable to form any connection. But everything changes when she arrives in Regal Oaks and meets the Burton brothers: Conall, the popular quarterback, and Rhys, the mysterious older brother.