Gabriella Smith has always been considered the World's Best Friend-but giving her all in a friendship has not done her any favors. Gabby's first and closest best friend, Cayden McDaniel, moved away after a small fight, taking a piece of her heart with him.
Finally, two years later, Gabby puts her lost friend and first love, behind her and tries to move on without Cayden in the picture, along with the help of her new best friend, Kyrie. Just as she let go of the hope that one day he would come back to her, Cayden appears back in the picture, and oh did he mention he is famous now? He claims to have been too busy with his band, Broken Roads, for the last few years, to contact her. Some best friend he is.
Pushing all her hurt aside and hoping that he is still the boy she fell in love with, she gives him one more chance, knowing that her heart is on the line once again. But she didn't expect Bradin Fields-the gorgeous, popular, ladies' man, with a secret side to him-to step into the picture. Gabriella soon finds out that everyone changes, and sometimes it's not for the best and that there are two sides to every story, or every person...and that love is unexpected.
All Arabella wants is a stable job and a faithful boyfriend. But she's only ever provided with cheating men. So what does she do when she leaves the fifth boyfriend in a row because he cheated? She runs. She runs as far as her legs can take her from the town that took from her but never gave.
Cayden is a man who has been given and taken from. Everyone thinks he has everything, but to him he has nothing. He has money and even richer parents, a flourishing business, and women at his beck and call. But he has a bad childhood, with divorced parents who fought most of his childhood and had to deal with losing his first love at a young age.
She comes back into his life, and this time he never wants to let go. But the problem is that she doesn't want to hold on.
This is a risky game of love they're playing, and someone is bound to get hurt