17-year-old Jaycee Stevens doesn't plan to stay a second longer than necessary in the rural Alabama town where she grows up with an abusive, alcoholic father. Usually, everything Jaycee does is focused on either getting a college scholarship in softball or pretending to her boyfriend Cole that she's a lot tougher than she really is. When Cole finds out she has a Valentine's Day tradition with a boy who's had a crush on her since third grade, he knows there's a lot more to this blonde tempest than meets the eye

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