Peruvian American Rosie leaves her Tennessee hometown to pursue her dream of making it in New York as a writer. But her plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington --- an obnoxious, surly and gorgeous literary fiction writer. Rosie and Aiden regularly go to verbal battle in workshop until their professor reaches her breaking point. She allows them to stay in her class on one condition: they must cowrite a novel that blends their genres. The reluctant writing duo can’t help but put pieces of themselves into their accidentally steamy novel, and their manuscript-in-progress provides an outlet for them to confess their feelings --- and explore their attraction toward each other. But when they find themselves competing against each other for a potentially career-changing opportunity, the flames of old rivalry reignite.