College students, Abby and Travis, fall in love after being friends for a while. He doesn't believe in relationships, just one night stands. Until he meets Abby. This book soon to be movie is about two people with troubled pasts learning to trust one another and change the way they look at things.

After his precocious behavior has gotten him bounced out of one more in a string of exclusive private schools, 16-year old Sebastian Valmont has arrived in New York City to live with his father and stepmother. The cunning and handsome Sebastian may have met his match, however in his equally manipulative and beautiful stepsister Kathryn Merteuil.