Ariel McArthur, seventeen, has always dreamed of learning how to play the guitar, it being the most important of her imaginative mind's many dreams. After being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, she's aware that while other girls her age are planning on going to college, marrying their high school sweetheart, and truly beginning their lives, her future isn't as certain. With this, she does not let her determination to learn the guitar diminish, a smile always on her face. When she uses a wish distributed by her hospital to win herself a guitar teacher, she never expects Leno Belle to appear: the gorgeous hospitalized boy with leukaemia with an ear for the guitar.
As the two begin to know each other, discover one another's secrets, a friendship begins that could easily transform into more. Nevertheless, the town's golden boy is determined to come in the way of this. With Leno and Ariel's relationship becoming closer and closer, they begin to see things that have never been seen before. Yet, when it comes to cancer, there's always an end and one of their grand finales is going to have to arrive before the other.
Cameron Cole has a plan.
After yet another relationship ends because of certain shortcomings-literally-Cameron decides it's time to swear off dating and focus her energy into her junior year at the University of Charlotte. There's an internship up for grabs and there's no way she's letting that slip through her fingers. But then she's goes and makes one impulsive mistake that changes everything.
Wesley Reed has it all.
As the golden boy of the Charlotte Colts football team, he's got the talent, the looks, and a future so bright it's practically blinding. Girls throw themselves at him, professors let things slide, and the world bends to his will.
But when a required freshmen paper threatens his eligibility, the two are brought together in a sick twist of academic fate. Cameron can't get him out of her head and Wesley isn't making it any easier with his cocky smirk and insistent charm. Their arrangement teeters on the edge of disaster as unresolved tension and late-night study sessions give way to a steamy, no-strings-attached deal.
But in the game of love and lust, someone always has to loose-and the stakes have never been higher.