The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

C'est une chose de prendre des risques inconsidérés pour tenter de se sentir plus vivante que jamais et c'en est une tout autre que de se jeter volontairement au cœur d'une tempête indomptable. J'ai beau tourner ça dans tous les sens dans ma tête, je ne sais pas comment j'en suis arrivée à accepter cette proposition, mais je ne vois qu'une seule issue possible : gagner ce pari ! Quel qu'en soit le prix à payer...

Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places. Unfortunately, Lea is reserved, Gabe has issues, and despite their initial mutual crush, it looks like they are never going to work things out. But somehow even when nothing is going on, something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. Their creative writing teacher pushes them together. The baristas at the local Starbucks watch their relationship like a TV show. Their bus driver tells his wife about them. The waitress at the diner automatically seats them together. Even the squirrel who lives on the college green believes in their relationship.