Elliott (Eli) and Samantha (Sam) are roommates at Gallagher's School for the Elite (really just a fancy way of saying boarding school for the rich). Sam goes home with Eli for winter break, where she meets his lovable family, and a misunderstanding leaves Eli and Sam with no choice but to pretend to be engaged. Will they end up falling in love? Or will their fake engagement follow plan and end in a divorce?

Finding evidence of her dead brother's whereabouts, Katherine Donovan believes that he is still alive. In pursuit to find her brother and restore her family's remaining happiness, she encounters the infamous and godforsakenly alluring Russian bastard Vitaly Alecovich Rostov and gets ensnared in his plan of capturing her brother. In order to attain his goal, he offers her a deal. However, the deeper she dives into the tangles of Vitaly's merciless world, she finds herself in a hauntingly familiar past. A past that she has been erased from- a past that she cannot she escape. Unsetting secrets loom the air of her maddening relationship with Vitaly. The question is; will she run from him? Or to him?