Seventeen-year-old Riley Vega has spent her entire life in Boston, so when she learns she’ll be picking up and moving to her mother’s childhood home of Carver, Kansas, she is less than thrilled. In fact, she is downright furious. Riley’s only visited Carver a handful of times. She barely knows her family that lives there and she has no desire to spend her senior year among the backwards residents of Carver. Reluctantly though, her views begin to change when she meets William Carter. William is popular and gorgeous and Riley’s never seen brown eyes quite like his before. While Riley couldn’t be happier, she knows Theo, her best friend in Carver, isn’t sure of her new relationship with William. She soon finds a balance between William and her friends though and life in Carver doesn’t seem so bad after all, even if her relationship with her mother is rocky at best. Just when Riley thinks she might be happy in Carver, a single decision changes it all, leaving her to find out who she really is and who matters most in her life before she loses everything.

Lyn Hemsworth, sixteen, the new girl in California High, enters a new life she doesn't quite expect. To start with, she has always been the biggest dork in school. One day, she meets Chase Edwards, the most popular teenage Hollywood Star, suddenly feeling this intensity between them. Knowing her place, she stayed away from him. She HAD to stay away from him. Now, she doesn't know how everything happened. Finding out that the feeling was mutual, Lyn finds herself so messed up. Does love-at-first-sight exist even though you know to yourself that the person whom you truly love can never be yours because you know you're both from totally different worlds?