Kathryn Gaskarth is Alex Gaskarth's little cousin. When she and her family move to Baltimore, she is sent to the same school as Alex. Kathryn is introduced to Alex's band and finds herself infatuated by Jack Barakat, one of Alex's best friends. One day, disaster hits Kathryn and her family and she is left to face a painful future on her own. But Jack refuses to let her go down. Can he help Kathryn before it's too late?

Fifteen year old Charlia has to do a class project. The project? Correspond to a pen pal. Thinking that it would be over email, Charlia and her classmates concluded that it was going to be easy. That was until she discovered that it was going to be handwritten. Alex couldn't understand why he'd decided to do this, but he felt that it would motivate him to write. So when a school had put out a request for people to be a part of the pen pal project, he signed his name up, inspiration lacking and frustration growing. What happens when Alex is paired up with Charlia and when things go wrong, he's the only one there for her? When pen is put to paper, words come tumbling out, even without meaning to. Some words will change the lives of others. {IT'S NOT A LOVE STORY, GET YOUR HEAD FROM THE GUTTER.}