When her successful fashion designer mother is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, seventeen-year-old Serene must take over her mother's business while also trying to find her father with the help of a new boy in town in whom she finds refuge and love.

When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's entirely fictional essay about meeting her perfect boyfriend goes viral at her international school in Beijing, she has to make a deal with the handsome and charming Caz Song to play the part--but when the relationship starts to feel real all her career plans are suddenly threatened.