Kimberly Torrance is a beautiful and kind painter from Europe. Her life is going nowhere until her widowed neighbor's son, Alex Malkovich, a handsome, seemingly perfect man with a passion for music, comes to stay with his mom from Ireland.
Kimberly likes Alex until she realizes how short-tempered, oblivious, and arrogant he can be. However, when a creep tries to mug Kimberly outside her small home, Alex springs to the rescue. Kimberly begins to notices that Alex is actually rather protective and sensitive at heart.
But, still with his oblivious ways, Alex dismisses Kimberly's affectionate feelings towards him which causes her to spiral into a short term depression streak.
Finally, when Alex's Irish girlfriend, Ruth Bishop, comes to Europe to stay with him and his mom, she threatens to come between them, and Alex has to make a difficult choice. But will Kimberly ever find the splendid love that she deserves?
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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