She came to Chicago to disappear. After her older brother's sudden death, Katherine leaves behind the only life she's ever known, hoping distance will bury the past. But when a hidden box of letters begins to unravel everything she thought she knew about her family, her quiet new life starts to fracture. Then there's the man who visits her café every morning. He doesn't recognise her. She doesn't recognise him. But some connections are made long before two people ever meet.

16 year old Juliet has been on her own for 11 months. Then she messes up. That slip up has the courts desiding she should be shipped off to Blackwood Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts. Across the entire country. As she tries to escape her problems more grow after she was assigned a project for history class. She meets new people some who become her new family and some who she cant stand including a boy who she is forced to be around.