Both parents are alcoholics her father rapes her and her mother doesn't care high school isn't any better she's always teased there and if she ever tells her boyfriend will he help her seek revenge, will he turn against her just like the rest did or will the tables be turned?

Running back wood trails usually meant freedom, but waking up bound to a dirty pin striped mattress, seventeen year old Samantha's world is anything but free. With a masked abductor reassuring her while he repeatedly injects her arm, she is terrified by his promise: one day she'll fall in love with him realizing too late who he truly is. Walling her heart proves difficult when eighteen year old Blake moves in next door and she discovers she may be more damaged than she'd thought. Her body's changing. She must unearth the truth behind the monster or risk experiencing worse things than just falling in love.

Rhiannon Spencer, the sister of his best friend, has been the object of Max's affections since his childhood. The trouble is, she's nine years older than Max. On Max's eighteenth birthday weekend, he asks Rhiannon for a most extraordinary favor. She helps him, and they go their separate ways. Years later, they meet up while vacationing, and they find that the repercussions of that favor still linger between them. Will they go on as if nothing ever happened, or will their memories get the best of them?