What would you do if you lost everything that ever mattered to you? When Phoebe Miller loses her family in a car crash, her answer is to simply close in on herself. She is too scared to get close to someone new, due to the fear of losing someone else important to her. Plagued by depression, harrowing nightmares and full of guilt, she pushes away the very people who may be able to help her through. Only one handsome and charming teacher is able to break down her wall of defences. But can their love survive, or is their forbidden relationship simply not meant to be?

Ally Sanders is the loner and freak of her high school. She refuses to talk to anybody, so people make fun of her. She almost always wears her hood to hide the bruises her father gives her and this just gives her immature classmates more reason to point and stare. She's all alone in the world, but will the new boy change that? Can he convince her to trust him and maybe gain her love? Can he be her knight in shining armor?