Abby Matthews, a normal fifteen year old girl struggles to find a place in the world, after her father went missing five years earlier. When Darren Wolfe, a new boy comes into her life, Abby tries to find out the secret that he hides from her. Along the way, Abby discovers shocking things about her past, including what happened to her father. Sometimes what you don't know can't hurt you, that is, until she finds her self falling for the hot, mysterious boy.

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.