The start of her junior year of high school, Emma Crawford seemed to have it all. The perfect family, great friends, and a top spot on her high school tennis team. But when Emma gets a glimpse of Jake Reynolds, a handsome senior with a devastating smile, the course of her life is forever altered. Caught up in Jake's chivalrous charm and piercing blue eyes, she doesn't notice the part of her life that begins unraveling. Or does she? Forced to make a decision between keeping her seemingly perfect world intact and the boy that has stolen her heart, which will she choose? At seventeen the choice should be simple. After all, no one ends up with their first love. If only she could get her heart to forget one thing: There's always The Exception to the rule.