A geeky teenager, Joe, discovers that they are getting new neighbors. Being the unsocial person he is, he isn't super hyped for they're arrival. But later in the week, he looks out his window to discover a golden haired girl watering her garden. He realizes that she is the new neighbor. He starts to watch her everyday when she waters the garden. He finally notices that she even is attending the same school. He is growing more and more fascinated by her. But will feeble Joe even make the effort to talk to her?

Jade Fairweather is your average 18 year old girl, unless you count being a half angel and half human demon killer, average. She has lived in Idris her whole life, until her parents were killed fighting for the Circle, her and her best friend Chlo (who's parents also died) were forced to move to New York. What the girls would discover there was something they could never have had in Idris, Friends, a home and even, Love.

What if you could hear them? The thoughts they deigned not reasonable enough to say out loud, the things not suitable for even a giggly teenage gossip conversation. Would it be a blessing or a curse? Troye, the unlucky teenager bestowed with this 'gift', thinks of it as a curse, with good reason. Do you know how hard it is to keep a relationship with someone when you know exactly what they think of you? Impossible. It's impossible. Or at least that's what Troye thinks, considering he's given up on even trying to make it work. He's different, people shun different. People hate different. And it's better to go under the radar, to be nothing, than to be hated. Right? Tyler, on the other hand, has taken a different approach to a similar problem. No, he can't 'read minds', but he does have a part of himself he doesn't want a soul to know about. He's quarterback, every girl's dream guy, an academic mastermind, and he's also gay. He's seen how different kids get treated, hell, he's been the one to treat them that way before. Why on Earth would he ever wish that on himself? No, it's easier to hide, to be someone you're not, than to be hated. Right?