When Agnes Harper's father passes away things become difficult for her. Soon she can't stand it much longer and runs away from home by herself. When a young boy crashes his car outside Agnes' house she quickly makes a new friend. Good luck or bad luck? Could he be trouble?

It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t so much spared him a glance anymore, and it was this that made her sit with him that one faithful day and begin something that would only end up causing her pain.