When you are born, you get a shiny necklace around your neck. For girls, the necklace gets hotter as they come close to finding their soulmate, but for boys it gets colder. You never fall in love with anyone but your soulmate, never consider anyone else. One day, River Grace feels something burning on her chest. It's the necklace. She doesn't know who her soulmate is, but she's determined to find him. At the same time, a boy named Luke is dealing with the same problem. They crossed paths once, and now Luke won't leave River alone until she helps him, and in return, he helps her. But, what happens if they start to fall in love, even if they may not be soulmates?
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.