Ava Bronson, an independent simple minded college student comes home to meet a surprise that she doesn't know will change her life forever. Being dragged into a new and unknown world, she finds out old and long kept secrets as well as forms new ones, makes and loose friends both old and new as she fights to survive in a game called life.

Storie Sovany is used to being dismissed as the fat friend, until she moves from New York City to rural Ohio for college and the charming frat boy Liam Alexander approaches her. Torn between disbelief and flattery, Storie hopes her luck may have finally changed - but is it too good to be true? [author's note: this is not a romance!]