Just as Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes. Revelations about her family, and then Hardin's, throw everything they knew before in doubt and makes their hard-won future together more difficult to claim.

Zoey Miller, a smart computer major who thinks she has love all figured out, has her life turned upside down when Zach, a popular college soccer player, gets amnesia and mistakes Zoey for his girlfriend. Before revealing the truth, she meets Zach's cousin, Miles, with whom she has much in common. Pretending to be Zach's girlfriend, she realizes she has feelings for both and is forced to confront her fears to make an impossible decision.

Nate suffers a near-fatal illness and is left a quadriplegic just weeks before departing for college. As Nate tries to adjust to his new life challenges, his mother helps him bring home an unlikely service animal, Gigi, a curious and intelligent capuchin monkey. Nate and Gigi form an unbreakable bond, but when it's threatened by a group trying to outlaw capuchins, Nate's family rallies behind him to help him regain the hope he so desperately needs....