Liam Carter and Conner Finkle have been best friends since Elementary school. They grew up together, went to college together, and now, they co-own a bakery/coffee shop. Fink bakes the pastries, and sandwiches and other treats, and Liam mixes coffee better than anyone who has ever worked at SquareBucks.
Fink is a wild guy, a dreamer, a totally optimistic, scatterbrained, risk taking party boy with only one consistency in his life, his best friend. Liam is calm, level-headed, smart and possibly a little cynical, with a talent for mixing drinks, and a passion for music.
And then there’s the girl, the girl with the gray eyes...
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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