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Beverly Hills, California. Adeline “Addie” Whitmore has everything a girl could possibly want. Money. Beauty. Popularity. Designer clothes. A mansion behind enormous iron gates. A brand-new car bought by her lawyer father. Parents who have spent her entire life making sure she never has to hear the word no. She’s the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and practically untouchable at school. Then there’s Nicholas Blackwell. Twenty years old. Covered in tattoos. Six-foot-four. A former inmate with a violent past, a broken family, and a reputation that makes people cross the street rather than walk beside him. He deals drugs. He rides a motorcycle. He disappears into clubs at night. He doesn’t trust people, doesn’t talk much, and doesn’t give a shit about what anyone thinks of him. Addie knows exactly what kind of man Nick is. Nick knows exactly what kind of girl Addie is. They come from completely different worlds. So when a sheltered rich girl meets the boy she was always warned about at a party she was never supposed to attend, becoming friends should have been the end of it. Except friendship doesn’t explain the late-night drives. It doesn’t explain the midnight calls. It doesn’t explain him showing up outside her mansion at two in the morning. It definitely doesn’t explain the way she forgets how to breathe whenever he calls her princess. “Just friends?” “Yeah. Just friends.” They both know they’re lying.