In a futuristic society jenna has never met a boy. The day you are born you are taken from your family. You meet them once more. The day you turn 18 an the day you become part of society. On that day you learn who You will marry and where you will live and you learn who your family is. It is the first day You should ever meet a boy. So why is 13 year old jenna meeting One now?

Nora Morris was not raised like normal children. She grew up inside the prison grounds of the Mississippi State Penitentiary and her father was the warden and has been since she was five. When Nora comes back from college for the summer she doesn't expect to fall in love. Especially with a new inmate named Noah. He is everything that Nora should stay away from and he has a criminal record that speaks for itself.