It only takes thirty sunless days in a twelve by twelve foot cell for the color to leech from her memories; the further six hundred and ten are just salt in the wound for nineteen-year-old Stephanie Armstrong. Her perception has been warped beyond belief, and what she once knew is no longer certain. Released back into a chaotic world, she has to relearn harsh truths and rediscover herself in the process. However, the world she left twenty-one months ago has changed irrevocably and it's thrown her into the center of one of the most dangerous situations she's ever faced. With everything having been turned on its head, Stephanie has to begin to realize that she's not the only one who's changed in the past two years. Reconciling the people she had once known with the superstars, criminals and misfits they are now is only the beginning of the story.

Stephanie Armstrong lost everything and everyone she knew when she was just fifteen. Two years later she's pursuing her past alone on the road, but it's been far too long with far too little to show for it. Time has worn her down, and trouble seems to follow her wherever she settles down. Out of leads, she hopes to recuperate in the small town of Quinn, Massachusetts. Being an outsider in a white picket fence town proves to be more difficult than she'd expected, until she finds friends in tough-love Kirsten and ever-quiet Daniel. But when the secrets she's been carrying forever come back to bite her, she has to figure out whether it is really possible to live the life she longs for with such a twisted past.