Erin Marie Deschanel, a college freshman at the University of Washington in the major seaport city of Seattle works for a publishing company called Deschanel and Mitchell. As a company intern and an advice columnist for the Seattle Gazette, Michelle Hilton, one of the head journalists has her writing a column about the good and bad of hooking up.

Eighteen year old Valerie Grace has just moved to Indianapolis, Indiana because of her newly wed mother when her world comes crashing down. Driving home from the wedding in her graduation present, a 2013 Ford Fusion given to her by her stepdad, she gets into a car accident. She awakens in a hospital bed hooked to a lot of machines and totally forgets what has happened to her?

Nineteen year old Lauren Elizabeth Daniels is a good girl who went to a private school in Liverpool, England. She doesn't go to parties, is a virgin, and hangs out with her best friends since first grade, Cameron Marshall and Jessica Kreutz. When she decides to move to London, England to go to the University of West London, her beautiful brown eyes fall upon the wrong crowd.

Erin Marie Deschanel is in love with Jesse Rutherford but she doubts that she should love him. She hates him for being a part of The Neighbourhood because she's jealous that her band dumped her for sleeping with one of the bandmates. Debating whether or not she should move forward him, she fights to stay with him.