When her first love, Demetrius King, walks out of her life abruptly during her sophomore year of college, twenty-year-old Kennedy Lewis' life turned upside down. She struggled for years to get over him and put the pieces of her heart and life back together. A first broken heart is never easy to heal, and it takes everything in Kennedy to get over him, graduate, and move on. Now, five years later, Demetrius is back, and Kennedy welcomes him with open arms. But her heartache is not over, and she learns that the first broken heart was nothing compared to what she will suffer now. How much would you endure for even just a piece of the one you love?