Brooklyn lives with her father and grandmother in Alaska. Her father is a drunk, and her grandmother is off her rocker. Having nowhere to go, being only seventeen, she finds herself trapped. On the verge of ending her life, she is caught by a boy named Evan... and he might change it all.

"When he first heard her, he knew. She was his bestseller." Before there were great stories, there were only words. Luke's were smart and eloquent but hollow. It was nothing like Emma's story, bleak and awkward, but honest to a fault. This is a coming-of-age journey of a writing prodigy in search of a story, his story, and a doe-eyed, homeless storyteller stifled by secrets, her secrets .