Tessa is a sheltered girl, victim of emotional abuse by her controlling mother who goes to college with dreams of working in publishing. She meets Hardin a tattooed fratboy with deep trauma.it makes for a dangerous combination. Hardin is allegedly based on Harry Styles but Harry is supposed to be nice, a Mama's boy. This guy is not, and the cycle of abuse that plays throughout is draining. There is love I suppose, but it is tangled in needy attachment, and sex