When Jenna Sakai gets dumped over winter break, it confirms what she learned from her parents’ messy divorce: relationships are risky and only lead to disappointment. So even though she still has to see her ex-boyfriend Elliott at the newspaper club, Jenna is going to be totally heartless this semester—no boys, just books.
But keeping her cool isn’t always easy. Jenna’s chief competition for a big journalism scholarship is none other than Elliott. Her best friend, Keiko, always seems busy with her own boyfriend. And cute-but-incredibly-annoying Rin Watanabe keeps stealing her booth at the diner where she’s been hiding every day after school. Rin is every bit as stubborn and detached as Jenna. And the more Jenna gets to know him, the more intriguing a mystery he seems. Soon Jenna is starting to realize that being a loner is kind of, well, lonely. And letting people in might just be a risk worth taking.