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To say I'm lacking a life plan would be a gross understatement. Yeah, I 'survived' something horrific and still managed to graduate college, but it did me little good. Here I am three years later with no life plan, no money and no goals, moving to a big city to live with my best friend in hopes of putting my self-destructive behavior behind me and getting my life back on track. Stacy and I met in college. She's the quintessential good-time girl, which means she just barely has her crap together herself. If I manage to survive living with her without getting arrested or seriously embarrassing myself, then I'll consider that a step in the right direction. No steps in any direction have even been made before Ian enters the picture, throwing me even further off course with all his sexy charm and annoying persistence. I've never had a guy so incapable of taking a hint. I don't care if he's Stacy's best friend and one of the city's most eligible bachelors. Doesn't make a difference to me that he's a walking contradiction; his gorgeous face and unrelenting kindness won't do him any good when it comes to me. Even if I wanted Ian - which I don't - I'm nowhere near ready for a serious relationship, and I swore off casual sex when I moved in with Stacy. So no matter how deliciously tempting he is, I'm not going to give in to Ian. Really I'm not. Due to the use of strong language and explicit adult situations, it is recommended readers be 18 or older before reading this book.

Carrie is plain, reserved and keeps to herself. Not because that's her personality, but rather to keep herself from being the center of attention. See, Carrie doesn't date. At all. She's also reached a point in her life where she's tired of having to explain why, which is the reason for her introverted behavior. Carrie is also the opposite of the type of girl Joe usually goes after. Not that Joe has to work for the attention of a woman, but normally he wouldn't even give someone like Carrie a second glance. Joe is laid back, out-going and makes friends everywhere he goes, so he knows right away that he won't have anything in common with the timid and mousy looking Carrie. Except their mutual friend, Stacy, that is. Only Joe doesn't exactly make the best first impression on Carrie, which results in him having to work harder than normal to even form some kind of friendship with her. Joe starts out trying to win Carrie's friendship for the sake of his friendship with Stacy, but the more he gets to know Carrie, the more he realizes just how wrong he was about her. A friendship emerges and feelings that are more than friendly start to threaten the easy relationship Joe and Carrie fall into, until one day the metaphorical curtain over Joe's eyes gets pulled back and he sees Carrie in an entirely different light.