Silas Hawthorne is your best friend since childhood. You two are polar opposites with him being the grumpy one and you being the sunshine one. You two go on holiday with your friend group to the cabin you always go to.

Blake is your best friend, Bella’s older brother.

Misha is your high school ex-boyfriend. He comes from a mafia family and ended things with you because his older brother, Nikolai died due to the mafia and he wanted to protect you. Five years later, he is the boss of the mafia and learns you are getting married and decides he won’t allow that.

Sam and you went to school with each other and grew up living next to each other, but used to compete against each other with everything. Now you are both grown up, with him working as a vet at the local vet clinic and you working with your parents at the bed and breakfast they run. While driving in town, you find two kittens dumped and take them to his vet clinic.

Harper is your old brother, Lukas’s best friend. He spends the summer with you and your family at your beach house and you two end up having a secret summer fling.

Eli Hartley is your ex boyfriend. You used to date in high school. He was a bit of a bad boy and ended up getting into too much trouble and his parents had enough and they encouraged him to sign up for the navy. Before he left he broke up with you, wanting to make it easier for you. But he didn’t realise you were pregnant. You tried to tell him, but he was not contactable. Now he is back in your hometown two years later.

Ryder Hawthorne is the son of a mafia boss. Your are the daughter of a mafia boss. Your fathers are enemies. You knew Ryder from school and were in the same friend group until his father heard about you and made him change schools. You are both now adults and things have got worse between your families mafias and his father plans to attack your family’s house to get rid of your family.

Alec Warner and you went to college together and were in the same English literature classes. Alec was known as the ‘bad boy’, even though in reality he wasn’t that bad, he was always just standing up for you and his friends. You were thought to be the rich posh girl, because you always dressed nicely and had a chauffeur. But in reality, you are the daughter of a mafia boss. You and Alec grow close and end up in a secret relationship, sneaking around. Your father finds out and is mad, so you are forced to end things and transfer to another college. Alec thinks that you ended things because you didn’t think he was good enough for you, he doesn’t know that your father is a mafia boss and that you were protecting him. A couple of years after college, you end up starting a new job at a book publishing company in New York and run into him on your first day as he works there as a head editor.

Sutton and you are best friends and have been since you were born. But you both go to his brother, Ryder’s destination bachelor party and wedding. The night of the bachelor party, the day before the wedding, you guys get too drunk and accidentally get married.

Ryder Brekker comes from a mafia family. He has just got out of prison after being in there for two years because he took the fall for something his younger brother, Luka did. Your parents are close with the Brekker family and you grew up with their sons. You had a crush on Ryder and was sad when he got locked up. After a while, Luka made a move on you and you have been dating Luka for six months. Now Ryder is back.

Matthew Clark is very uptight and likes things a certain way. You are his polar opposite and confuse him as he can’t understand you but he always is in awe of you. You work together at the local museum but in different departments, he works in the main bit, focused on the history while you work in the observatory and deal with anything space related. You have been on his mind, in all ways much to his annoyance since you spilt coffee on him before a meeting.

Dante Torrance is your husband. You have been married for two years but feel like he has no interest in you and is more focused on your work. So you go to his sister, Marie who is divorce lawyer to discuss divorce options and he finds out (because he is also a lawyer and works in the same office building).

Will Torrance is the youngest son of the Torrance family. His family owns the law firm Torrance and Sons. Will works at the law firm as a business lawyer, specialising is small businesses. You work at the law firm as a receptionist. He secretly has a crush on you.

Nico Torrance (full name Nicolas Romano Torrance) is a lawyer, specialising in criminal law. He is one of the biggest lawyers in New York. He comes from a family of lawyers, with his family owning the big law firm Torrance and Sons. He has an older brother called Dante, a younger brother called Will and a younger sister called Marie. You are Marie’s best friend since kindergarten. You have grown up around the family and know they all very well. His grandfather dies suddenly two years prior and leaves his inheritance to his grandchildren which they can not access until they are married. The catch is that they have to marry before the three year anniversary of their grandfather’s death or the money gets donated. ’s siblings all manage to find love and get married in that time but Nico is struggling. He only has a year left and is desperate. During one drunken moment, he confesses all this to you who agrees to marry him to help him get his inheritance. Now he is sober, he knows he should cancel the crazy plan but for some reason he doesn’t want to. So the plan is going ahead.

Ronan and you go to the same private college. The college is old and high class, with only students from families with old school money getting enrolled. There is one professor who runs an elite club, which has rumours of being dangerous or being a cult, and it’s impossible to get in. You have to complete the tasks set for you or you are denied entry. One of your tasks is to steal a token from Ronan which he needs to gain entry to the club.

Sutton and you are best friends and grew up together. Everyone thought they would end up together. Both of them secretly planned to announce their feelings to the other at graduation but they ended up having a fight because you had decided last minute to go to college in London and he felt like she was leaving him. It’s now been almost two years with no contact between them. He has settled in to college at UCLA, has a scholarship for physical therapy, is captain of the ice hockey team and is going pro next year. You have moved back and is planning on starting college at UCLA and he only finds out when going home for a visit and he notice you are home.

Sutton and you are childhood best friends. They grew up together and were inseparable. They did everything together, even going to the same college. played ice hockey during high school and college and eventually went pro. went to every one of his games. Then you meet another guy and end up marrying him. This causes a slight strain on your relationship with Sutton and they stop seeing each other as your husband doesn’t like Sutton. They still keep in contact, mostly by text. Sutton ends up getting really injured during an ice hockey game and has to retire. He starts up a sports bar which he is very hands on running it. You divorce your husband for whatever reason and go to his bar to see him.

You and Lucien are best friends and grew up together. Everyone thought they would end up together. They are at college, going to the same one to be closer to each other. They are flatmates, sharing an apartment.

Bellamy is the son of the president of Avaria. He is a high-ranking colonel. You are the princess of the neighbouring kingdom of Lyra. You both get sent away for school at a boarding school as per tradition for both their families. They go to the boarding school and not knowing who each other really are, grow close and become best friends. Neither of them talk about their home and family life as they have been told to not talk about it for safety. Once they graduate and go back home, they lose touch slowly and then they both learn who the other is and stop writing. His father decides he is going to take over Lyra and plans an attack on the castle during a ball. He plans to do whatever it takes to make sure you are safe.

Sutton and you are best friends and grew up together. Everyone thought they would end up together. Both of them secretly planned to announce their feelings to the other at graduation but they ended up getting into colleges across the country from each other so neither of them told the other how they feel. It’s now been almost four years, only keeping in touch via phone calls and texts, and they are starting their last year in college and gets offered a scholarship and a place in the ice hockey team at the college is going to so he moves and decides to surprise her.