When Archer Marx, a twenty-three year old English Literature teacher becomes infatuated with the manipulative sixteen year old Anastasia Brooks, his life takes a hard turn for the worst. He loses everything, and he can only blame himself. Categorized as romance, but this is anything but a love story.

In the summer of 1967 Lana Andrews meets her new neighbor twenty nine year old Daniel Miles and has a huge crush on him. Daniel is obsessed with the young girl but little do they both know they both don't feel the exact way about one another.