Growing up, Brise Dalton knew one thing to be true: love isn't for her. Stubborn and hell-bent on getting what she wants, she navigates a life no young girl should have to endure having been abandoned by her mother and having to live with an abusive father. There is only one person who has ever been able to shake something in her, but when she goes off to college, he tears her entire world apart. Ashton isn't the boy Brise once knew, and he isn't interested in mending her broken heart. He's out to settle a score. Little does he know, all Brise wants is rectify what ruptured between them. Does she drop everything for a feeling foreign to her, or does she run before her family secret consumes her?