Being the only black girl growing up in a small, mostly white and bigoted midwestern town is no easy feat. Samantha Hayes took the first chance she could to escape that backwater and never looked back. But she couldn't forget her best friend, the first boy she'd ever had a crush on. If she were honest with herself, he was the first boy she'd ever loved.



Time and distance may have driven them apart, but Sam never forgot about Bobby Bradley. So when he showed up on her doorstep out of the blue, it was surprising, and exciting. Samantha and Bobby rekindle their old friendship, and something more. Sparks fly between the two, and the two friends find themselves becoming something more than they were, something passionate, something once forbidden. Something more than just friends...