Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

Marcel Styles is your average nerd. But beneath the nerd, there's a heart. A heart that just wants to be loved. Ember Rockmore is your average teenage girl. But beneath the girl, there's a heart A heart that almost stopped. When Ember Rockmore moves out to Cedar Hills, she expects to be able to start over. She wants to forget her past. Change her life. What she doesn't expect to do is to change someone else's life. Enter Marcel Styles. Lived in Cedar Hills all his life and never once made a single friend. Well except for his Russian nanny. But soon all of that changes when a tall, blonde girl walks into his English Classroom. Marcel is that someone else. But just when you think you have heard it all, Marcel has one more secret tucked neatly in his pocket. This secret could kill, and it has. Take a journey with Marcel and Ember. Find out what they're hiding beneath those thick lenses, and the beautiful blue eyes.