After being expelled from boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his flighty stepmother while his father is on military duty. But things quickly take a turn from bad to worse when he learns she's planning to move back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek is counting down the days until he can live on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved in someone else's family drama.

Ashtyn Parker knows for sure: the people you care about leave you without looking back. A football scholarship would finally give her a chance to leave. So she goes all out for the state championship decider until her boyfriend and their team's popular quarterback betrays them all by joining the rival team. Ashtyn needs a new game plan, but it requires complete trust in Derek - someone she barely knows, someone who was born to break all the rules.

Is she willing to put her heart in the line of fire to try to win? in this game?