When pursuing her dreams leads to a fractured relationship with her mother, a young student angrily leaves home, but soon finds herself the hostage of a deranged criminal who forces her to drive him across the country.

Maggie is a teen who's happy to make a new friend, until she realizes she's being groomed for something much worse.

While his friends are busy living their dream, he challenges his idea on balancing two opposites - his bachelor life and his future marriage, until an awkward dinner party changes his perception of reality.

Usually, best-selling novelist Jen only writes about murder, romance, and mystery, but when she retreats to her island bungalow for peace and inspiration, her own life soon becomes as deadly, steamy, and twisty as one of her beach reads.