Nic Lawrence considers herself bad. She has tattoos, piercings, smokes, rides a motorcycle, and even works at a motorcycle shop. At school, she's infamous for all of those things. All of that gets thrown out the window when she and her adoptive parents move to Sydney, Australia. And, get this, they put her in a program called Adults Surviving Child Abuse. It all changes from there when she meets a giggly, curly-haired Ashton Irwin, who Nic can't seem to get out of her head.
For Ashton Irwin, music is his life, drumming specifically. He's even in a band with his three best friends called 5 Seconds of Summer. They have dreams of getting big (and a phone call from a certain someone makes those dreams come true). Ashton uses music as a distraction to get away from his past, along with the help of Adults Surviving Child Abuse. Life's going pretty good, but it just seems to get better when feisty badass Nic Lawrence pops into his life, and he can't help but to be attracted to her.
Told in two points of view, readers can follow a story full of revved up engines and rising fame, with just a touch of giggles and leather jackets.
The last thing Ashton ever wanted to do was hurt Luke, but he couldn't help it. The singer was just so beautiful, so ethereal and otherworldly that it took his breath away most of the time. Everyone felt that way about their best friend though, right? It was normal. No use getting unnecessary feelings involved, it was better this way. Luke understood.
Luke wasn't sure when this thing between him and Ashton started, or how it started, but it didn't matter. He was in too deep to go back now. So Luke would let Ashton use him, hurt his feelings and crawl back with apologies. Because at the end of the day, even when Luke had to watch Ashton leave the bar with a new pretty blonde each night, he knew the drummer would eventually end up back in his bed. And Luke told himself he was okay with that.