Harvey Young, rock star lead of the Scottish band Shaggy Maggie, has dreamed his whole life about the red-haired girl from the school bus that he bullied until she ran away. He's resigned himself to groupie fill-ins. There's no way he'll ever see her again. Why torture himself pining for his lost youth? Magda Canady may be on the unlucky side, but her life is starting to work itself out. She's an editor for a New York Publishing company and her long-time lawyer boyfriend is taking her home to Scotland to meet the parents and his younger brother. But the trip holds more danger than she could have imagined. Between a psycho stalker and the boy who tortured her through high school, she might lose her mind - and her life - before it's all said and done. When a chance encounter brings them together once more, it's the past, the present, and a little psychosis that may get in the way of the future that was always meant to be.

Beckman Young, a lawyer at the firm Cadwell, Young, and Forester, thought he finally had his life together, but in one fell swoop it spiraled out of control. After his fiancé leaves him for his twin brother on Christmas day, and a car accident that was more self-destructive than accidental, he heads home to figure out where he went wrong and how to put his life back together. But someone is trying to kill him and it's not just his life that's in danger. Autumn never expected to meet someone like Beckman, and in her father's bar, passed out drunk, and suffering from several injuries. She has commitment issues and lives with her cranky father above his bar. So, falling for Beckman isn't ideal. Neither is the fact that he's recently had his heart broken and it seems that one of his previous clients is trying to kill him. When you start the New Year with a broken heart and a death threat, it can only mean that things will get better. Otherwise, you'll end up dead.