Seventeen-year-old Charity Dawson (Isabela Merced) is suffocating. Her high school romance with the golden boy, Dean Morrison (Chase Stokes), has turned toxic and dismissive, leaving her feeling small and invisible. She's clinging to the mess they have, convinced this is the best she can do. But one night, Dean's callous disregard finally cracks her heart wide open, forcing her to see the truth: she deserves better.
Just as her world collapses, stability walks back into her life in the form of Andy Barber (Chris Evans). Andy is her father's best friend-a renowned, principled lawyer-older, married, and entirely off-limits. Andy is the embodiment of the structure and respect Dean never offered, and their conversations about college and her future are a balm to her battered self-esteem.
What starts as innocent mentorship quickly evolves into a charged, dangerous intimacy. Trapped between the wreckage of her first love and the forbidden intensity of her feelings for a man she can't have, Charity must navigate a complex line that could destroy his career and tear her family apart. How far is she willing to fall for the one man who finally makes her feel seen?
After finding out the truth about the car accident that almost killed his son, Andy and Jacob Barber have made for Colorado, desperate to start over and forget the events that happened back in Boston.
Andy has made a vow to himself - to only focus on Jacob and his happiness, even if it means giving up on his own.
However when he befriends the local nurse, Andy realises that perhaps there is an opportunity to begin again, and Nora Campbell may just be the answer.
Defending Jacob characters are not mine, but my OC is.