BETH PIERCE is finally getting somewhere in this tough town. A struggling actress, she self-emancipated from her grifter parents at age fourteen and has made her own way ever since. Now she's about to break out in a national campaign for Boomerang, a dating site she might join if she wasn't too busy fighting off the clammy advances of casting directors and fending off the constant messages that she needs to lose just another ten...or thirty...pounds. She's on the edge of something great, but patience just isn't her strength. Coming along to prove that theory is GRAY BLACKWOOD, eighteen-year-old cousin to ADAM BLACKWOOD. A bad boy who's not even close to being reformed, Beth and Gray collide at the first of her commercial shoots when a hungover Gray decides to puke into her Kate Spade handbag--the one that was supposed to go back to Bag Borrow or Steal. He sees a smoking hot African-American goddess. She sees a messed up kid, the kind of kid she might be if she stayed with her screwed up folks in St.Louis, MO. But he's been given the job to assist her during the next few weeks of commercial and photography shoots. So, they're stuck with each other. Working together, Beth penetrates his apathetic facade, coming to realize that he's not as foolish--oras young--as he at first seemed-- Provided by publisher.