In Savannah, Georgia Elle Sinclair, a refined Black debutante, and Luke O'Connor, a rugged White mechanic, come from two different worlds destined to remain apart. But when a chance encounter brings them together, their forbidden romance sparks a love connection that challenges them for the unexpected.

"He is not perfect. He is not whole. But he is still beautiful, scars and all." *** Meet Ebony Smoke - just your average teenage girl who loves reading, dancing, and solitude. She enjoys her completely normal (if not a little boring) life at Silver Cross Academy, but everything changes when she meets Avery Steel - the motorbike-riding, bad-boy-extraordinaire son of Macon Steel, the richest man in Fairview. Avery is a boy with a dark past and an even darker future, and before long Ebony finds herself tangled in a wild web made of the Steel family's secrets, while also dealing with demons of her own. Yes her life may seem plain, but what secrets is she hiding too?