After 1 - This is where it all begins

The girl and the bad boy: a dream come true…

Eighteen-year-old Tessa Young has left her boyfriend and overprotective mother behind to attend the University of Washington. She had been planning this for years, and the rest of her future seems to be set in stone. But then she meets Hardin. He is mean and covered in tattoos and piercings.

Hardin manages to bring out a great passion in Tessa, no matter how hard she tries to resist it. She gets to know his wild and romantic side and is forced to make a choice between her trusted childhood friend Noah, and a future that is exciting, new and unknown.