Leaving most of her family, all of her friends and her home country behind, portuguese 17 year old Amália Fernandes moves to South Carolina with her parents and two younger siblings, due to her father getting a position at the Medical University of South Carolina. With a typical northern portuguese personality and no patience for most people, Amália finds that high school in the States is nothing like it was back home. While at school, she meets Connor Stevensons, the bad boy quarterback of the Beaufort Eagles, for whom she develops an embarassingly fast growing crush. Then Tyler Johnsson. While trying not to punch most people who treat like she's stupid, and figuring out her feelings for both boys, Amália copes with all the changes around her.

It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.

This isn’t a love story, it’s a love adventure. First love’s a killer, but so is seventeen-year-old Annabelle Blanc. She was raised to be an assassin and taught to never fall in love. She’s at the top of her game until she meets Gabriel Sanchez. Totally devoted to her profession, she’s never been naive. Except for when it comes to love. Wealthy, spoiled and self-indulgent, Gabriel Sanchez doesn’t think past his next conquest. Until he sets his sights on Annabelle. Expecting the mysterious Anna to be like every other girl, Gabriel finds himself drawn into a world of deception and murder. As two worlds collide, will Annabelle and Gabriel be able to overcome betrayal, revenge and heartbreak to find love?

Lexi Grayson is a normal teenager, as normal as she can be with her unobserving skills and her overthinking mind. But she might need the overthinking if she wants to unravel the smirking mystery that is Blake Eaton.