Emory Hart is a simple woman. She loves her family, enjoys her trips to the book store and to the coffee shop and she can never turn down her best friend when it comes to random nights full of chaos. She's content. All it takes is one run in with the one person she never seemed to win over and a surprise visit from her brother to shift Emory's whole world on its axis. After two years of successfully avoiding him, Emory's "simple" and "content" are about to morph into something a bit more frustrating and confusing and it comes in the form of her brothers best friend. Adrian Harley is a man of control. He's easy going and has charmed his way into the hearts of the entire Hart family. Emory has always been his biggest challenge. It's not because he can't win her over with the same easy going routine he uses with everyone else. It is simply because he can't find himself wanting to. No, what Adrian seeks from Emory is something much more intense. Darker. It's only because of his relationship with her brother that he swallows all of those urges for the sake of his closest friend and his own sanity. When Adrian offers his guest room to his best friend, he comes face to face with the one thing he can't have and his self control begins to snap. Adrian finds himself crossing the one line that was silently drawn when befriending the Harts. The line that leads to the one woman he isn't allowed to want. He's unleashed. Obsessed even. And she thinks he hates her.

Adeline Hart and Alexander Harrington couldn't be any more opposite from each other. She seeks a soul consuming love and he seeks a thrill in life that keeps him moving around. Both are slapped with the reality of their bad habits. When Adeline's best friend calls her out on the way she throws her heart out to any man she deems suitable, Addie suddenly doesn't want to be that girl. She vows to wait for the love she seeks. Taking a break from men, in the romantic sense anyway. Addie wants to focus on her career, on herself, on her sisters wedding and definitely NOT on her sisters best friend with the pretty smile. When Alexander's best friend calls him out on his commitment issues, he discovers that he might actually like someone. Sure, she's his best friends sister but he actually likes this girl. Xander wants to try. He can commit to something, right? When he imagines what it might be like to be with Adeline, he can't really imagine anyone else. He wants to try. He wants her. He just might be too late.