Peyton has always been the girl who flies under the radar-ordinary, average, never one to stand out. But that all changes on her first day of college when she's struck by a football and knocked to the ground in front of the football team, and even worse-her over-the-top, dramatic mother.
The one good thing to come from the humiliating event: she meets Max, the campus' charming and popular football star. Their unlikely friendship pulls her into a world she's never known, giving her all-access to exclusive parties and the popular crowd. But it also sparks jealousy and draws the kind of attention she never asked for.
Things get even more complicated when Peyton falls for Beau, the irresistible guitarist of Trudge Lite, the up-and-coming band everyone's talking about. She knows he's the ultimate heartbreaker and tries to keep things casual. Caught between wanting what she shouldn't, navigating shifting friendships, and keeping secrets that grow heavier by the day, Peyton soon realizes that some lines aren't so easy to draw, let alone keep.
Trying to balance it all, Peyton and Max keep up careful charades, not only from those around them but also from each other. Soon they'll learn that secrets have a way of unraveling, no matter how carefully they're guarded.
Peyton will have to decide what and who she's willing to risk it all for.
It started with a coffee.
Don't all good love stories involve coffee in some way or another?
Charlotte is a college student living what she believes is a perfect life but why isn't she happy?
She has a boyfriend, Jack who she's been with since she was an early teen. She has a massive group of friends. She's doing well at school
From the outside life looks perfect..
Except her boyfriend acts like a totally different person since joining the new friendship group
The massive group of friends, don't seem to like her. She's not like them and they know it.
She's at a college that she didn't want to go to.
Studying a degree she hates, because Jack was adamant, that they go there.
And why would she argue against him?
He's her forever, right?
Life is mediocre but love is love and she does love Jack.
Until she meets Liam.
He's sits with a coffee at her job, enjoying a book.
What are these sparks she's feeling? It's just excitement from meeting a new friend with similar interests right?
Lies. Betrayals and Loss.
Everything comes to light one night forcing Charlotte to accept new realities and maybe not everything is as perfect as they seem to be.