Brighton Lee, 17 years of age, is a straight A student from Birmingham, Alabama. She is very well rounded through school, writing, and Caiden Liston, the love of her life who she meets in chapter 2. Her father, Andrew Lee, and mother, Karen Lee, are very strict. Being lawyers, this isn't very surprising. Her love is great and heart is innocent, that is until her mother is killed. Her boyfriend, being the last person seen with her mother is a suspect. What else could go wrong?
After a traumatic event when she was 17, Sara Ashton longs for normalcy. She hates being in the spotlight and hasn't dated since that night. The night she was raped. Sara is getting ready for her final year of college and in one of her classes she gets partnered with the best friend of her abuser for a semester long project. Can she move past her fears and learn how to love?
Kai Jenson wants out from under his father's crushing shadow and expectations. Nothing he does is ever good enough for his parents. They want a marriage of convenience for him, but he wants love and respect. Now in his final year of college Kai makes his move to freedom. But at what cost? Will he find love and freedom or be miserable and stuck in the marriage his parents want?