Unwilling to force her live-in lover into a proposal of marriage, a pregnant young woman prepares to walk away from the man she loves, never realizing how much he is willing to do for love.

Frank Machianno, an affable, middle-aged Italian with a love of people and life, runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. He has his life turned upside down when his past revisits him. A local Mob boss knows that Frank was once "Frankie Machine," the most feared hit man on the West Coast, and is calling in a favor, while someone from the past wants him dead.

"Hannah Cho's ex-boyfriend and all her friends are newly obsessed with K-pop and K-dramas, and Hannah is not. After years of trying to embrace the American part and shunning the Korean side of her Korean American identity to fit in, Hannah finds that's exactly what now has her on the outs. But someone who does know K-dramas--so well that he's actually starring in one--is Jacob Kim, Hannah's former best friend, whom she hasn't seen in years. He's desperate...

When seventeen-year-old Veronica's photograph of her introverted girlfriend goes viral, they are sent into a spiral of fame and lethal danger as they navigate the turbulent waters of their relationship, secrets, acclaim, and the underground San Diego art scene.