Max is struggling, plain and simple. After dropping out of school two years ago to help his mom with the bills and losing his best friend, he's just kind of shut things out. His life has been in pure survival mode. Work, pay bills, survive. But things only getting more complicated when he's ripped away from everything he's ever known. His mom, never the most put together woman has an affair with her married boss and gets pregnant. Now she's decided to move them both to Beverly Hills and into his place! With new step siblings that hate him before they've even met and a man that thinks he can just jump in and be his father, Max has had just about enough of everything. On top of all that he's starting up school again, and with these new fancy rich kids, Max feels even more suffocated and out of place then he did before. Will Max figure out his place or fall farther and farther into the background suffocating?

Getting kidnapped by the mafia was never part of her plan. Now she's trapped in their world - and worst of all? She's starting to fall for Jongup, the cold, quiet man who's keeping her locked away. She knows she should hate him. But in a world full of danger and secrets, Jongup is the only one who makes her feel... something real.

They say a circle of friends should never cross the line-no dating, no relationships-because if things fall apart, everything gets awkward. But guess what? We didn't listen. I fell in love with LJ. LJ fell for Jane. Jane's already in a relationship with Shawn. And Beauty secretly crushing on Shawn. Now, everything's complicated. Hearts are breaking, secrets are spreading, and friendships are hanging by a thread. This is the messy, chaotic, illegal love story of our circle. And honestly? I don't know how long it's going to last.