If your twenties are supposed to be the best years of your life, Bennet Taylor is failing miserably . . . with a big emphasis on the miserable. Where’s that zest she keeps hearing about? She’s a temp worker in New York City with no direction, no future, and no social life. And at the painful center of this listlessness is grief over the death of her first love.

After one too many falls from the top of the cheer pyramid, star flyer Fallon Ford has been benched from Carter U’s elite competition team. The only problem is, Fallon has been setting her sights on getting a sports grant to cover her post-graduate degree, but with that option off the table she’s going to have to get the cash a different way. She only has one after being at the mercy of two strict parents for her entire adolescence, Fallon likes to achieve her goals alone. And to achieve those goals? She’ll do whatever it takes.