Oliver Spencer is a sixteen-year-old American teenager, openly gay, who is uprooted from his life in the U.S. when his parents decide to move to a fictional South American island called Golden Isle. Reluctantly, Oliver is forced to leave behind his friends, his familiar world, and, most painfully, his boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Kelvin Sánchez, whom he loves with all his heart.
On Golden Isle, Oliver is enrolled at Collinwood Academy, an elite private school known for its prestige and exclusivity. There, he crosses paths with Sirilo Avallon, a charismatic internet sensation and the star player of the school's soccer team. A strikingly handsome Black teenager who is also openly gay, Sirilo is a notorious heartbreaker with an irresistible charm. He's used to getting whatever-and whomever-he wants, whenever he wants, with a long list of conquests to prove it. No one has ever turned him down.
When Sirilo sets his sights on Oliver as his next romantic target, he's confident it's just a matter of time before he adds him to his list. But Oliver, still loyal to Kelvin and uninterested in Sirilo's games, firmly rejects his advances. Unfazed and intrigued by the challenge, Sirilo makes a bold bet with his friends: he'll win Oliver over and sleep with him before the first semester ends. Will Sirilo's charm finally meet its match, or will he succeed in his audacious plan?
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.