Stella Marlowe has always lived a simple life in small town Iowa. She's got a spot at an Ivy League University, her best friend Honor St. James, and a great boyfriend, but Stella has always kept walls up around her heart. Then she spots Tucker Hastings at a party her first day at Brown, and her world changes. Tucker was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and is living life jumping from one torrid affair to another. He has a past he fights to forget, and a shattered heart as proof of the night that went tragically wrong. Can Stella and Tucker repair their broken hearts and learn to love again?