Merci lives a hard life. With her father gone and her mother sick, she must work in a cotton factory to provide for her mother and four younger siblings. When she is thrown from the factory, she is forced to find a new way to ensure her family's survival. What she never expected was the form she found it in.
Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.