Chase Stokes and Sydney Taylor are two people whose years of knowing each other is exploding into something new in Marked Men: Rule + Shaw. The movie serves as an adaptation of Jay Crownover's Rule, part of the titular novel series, and chronicles the stories of Rule Archer and Shaw Landon, a rebellious tattoo artist and pre-med student from a wealthy family. Though having been a part of each other's lives for a long time, Shaw has kept secret the feelings she has for Rule, but finally decides to push through and put everything on the table.