Fashion design major Caroline Hunter has always been poor but never struggled with romance...until her senior year. She's gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates. Then she meets mathematics grad student Reed Pendergraft. Reed is everything she's not looking for. Serious. Headed for a low paying university job. Boring. Caroline spent the first eighteen years of her life wondering where her next meal was coming from. She's not getting trapped in that life again. An encounter with Reed at a club proves she might have pegged him wrong. He brings out a lusty side she never knew she had. But just when she's about to give in to her hormones, Reed makes a fool out of her. When Caroline discovers Reed is the chairman of Southern University's Fall fashion show committee-a fundraiser for underprivileged children-she's horrified. Struggling to endure his strict leadership without losing her heart or her pride, Caroline soon realizes her entire life has been redesigned by the enigmatic Reed Pendergraft.