Rule number one, always make sure it's unexpected nobody can be trusted.
Rule number two, always be one step ahead.
Rule number three, never get emotionally attached.
Rule number four, never say the words I love you first.
And last but not least rule number five, don't ever be heartbroken always be the heartbreaker. If only I didn't break every single one of my own rules maybe I wouldn't be in this mess.
Allison Simpson is a spunky seventeen year old girl with a sweet spot for causing trouble. Constantly on the open road with her mother, a famous nature photographer, Allison is never in the same place for long. With so many worldly experiences under her belt, Allison has come across one thing all over, heartbreak. Seeing the worse players from sea to shining sea has turned this once kind girl's heart ice cold. Fed up with the way she has seen boys use love as an advantage in life Allison has decided to get even by giving a few notorious gentleman a taste of their own medicine. Life is good until a permanent job leaves Allison in the small town of St. Pete Beach for her entire senior year. What should be business is turned upside down by the most infuriating, cocky, obnoxious, annoying human known to man. Allison is pulling out all the stops and breaking a whole lot of rules. Can this heartbreaker keep from getting her heartbroken?
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.