"And don't ever touch any of the stuff in this bag or you will seriously regret it." I glared at my new roommate, brushing past him roughly as I stalked out of the bathroom we now shared. I sat down on the couch in the horridly decorated living room and started flipping through channels on the TV. After a moment, Wyatt appeared in the room, a look of horror on his face as he held up a dangling thing on a string. "What the hell is this thing?" I focused on the dangling pendulum and ran over to snatch it. "A tampon, you idiot! Now keep your big nose out of my stuff!" I yelled, but he just smiled sweetly. "Good luck with that."
Eden Peletier is a question mark. A dark past that's just a little blot on the page and a life that's gone up, curved around, and is slowly coming back. When she gets offered a rent free apartment by her uncle, she takes it, no questions asked. She just wants a place where she can write music and paint. But, even rent free, the apartment has its downfalls, specifically the roommate.
Wyatt Lange has never been anything but a comma, a constant figure in a life that is a series of little events left in the past. He was kicked out from his home as soon as he blew out the candles on his birthday cake, so when his boss offers him an apartment rent free, he doesn't even stutter before saying yes. He just wants a place where he can hang out with his friends without his parents over his shoulders.
From the start it's relentless teasing, pranks, name-calling, and other childish banter. But as Eden's songs get noticed and Wyatt's friendship grows on her, they find themselves stepping in stride into a new life. What's a romance without an adventure?
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.