Violet Evans likes her days mapped out and predictable, so she heads to Springs U with her best friend after losing the man who had been the only father in her life.
A calm first year is the plan, but it falters the moment tattooed football player Ryan Shane crosses her path.
Ryan wants his world limited to the game, with no space for fresh trouble, yet one tense encounter and a fierce kiss start him falling for her.
He carries a layered past Violet is determined to open, and the two keep finding their way back to each other even when they try to walk away.
Neither of them knows whether a life-altering choice, or the mistakes still buried in Ryan's past, will cost them the happiness drawing them together.