When my best friend said she wanted to get over her recent heartbreak, I was fully prepared to sit with her in a bar. However, punching her ex in the face and then meeting his cousin hadn't really fit into my plan at all.

Trying to find her place in the world, Amela Taous escapes her mundane life for a week, for what her parents think is a college visit. Her independence is put to the test when several obstacles are put in her way, and she is forced to rethink everything she was ever taught by her parents. Amela knows that this is her only chance of finding herself before she has to go back to reality and face the everyday stressful routines of starting college and living under her parents' strict rules.

"Everyone loved Macie. She was that cute quiet girl next door who had memorized everyone’s birthdays and favorite colors. She knew your favorite songs and she would sing them when you walked by just to make you smile. She was the one you went to when you wanted a laugh, or a hug, or a just someone to talk to. She seemed, essentially, perfect." But that was the old Macie. She's different now. Everything is different now.

According to April, Leo Zachary was the champion of douchebags. And as for him, just the sight of her smug, holier-than-thou persona got him irritated. They could barely stand I the same room without wanting to rip each other's heads off. But things get even more out of hand when, upon discovering two magical rings in the school's time capsule, both of them try them on. To her horror, April soon realizes that the matching rings have special powers that make her bound to his every command--like some kind of slave. Leo, on the other hand, was ready for some serious payback.