Mackenzie Dallas is an ordinary girl. She is sister of Cameron Dallas. Thirteen years old. Friends describe her crazy, funny, loud, and pretty. She doesn't believe that she is all that but believes in her friends advice. North Carolina is her home state, born and raised here. Stanley to be exact. The day her best friend who lived right next to her moved out she was devastated. Two days later new neighbors come. Her mother tells her that there is a boy her age and another boy Cameron's age. She goes over with her little sister, Paige and Cameron. Then knocks on the door. After knocking on that door, she realized that her whole life changed.

David Ferreira was just another fourteen year old boy with a rich family. He was always so used to getting what he wanted- until a tragedy that leaves him heartbroken forces him to make a life-changing decision. David learns what it's like to make something out of nothing. He was always so used to being on top- but the farther he travels, the more he wonders whether he really was that spoiled rich boy who always got what he wanted, or that that part of him was as fake as some of the actors his mom has worked with. Or that "being on top" was not what he has expected it to mean. In a book that teaches people about heart, love, confidence, finding true friends and -most importantly- finding their true meaning, David has become a person better than he was before- even though he has lost almost everything he has ever loved. But maybe his sacrifices were worth the risk...