Lux Valentina was once a typical teenage girl until the United States was overrun with corruption and violence. Due to this, at just nineteen years old, she flees her home state to a small city known as Perish Heights. Demetrius Vain is a world-renowned underground street fighter. He is brutal and angry, with a heart made of ice. He had no weaknesses, and often called the "Shadow of Death" due to all of those he had murdered whilst street fighting. All of his life he has used violence to unleash the bitterness in his heart. There is not one person on this earth that could tame him - or so he thought. When the two collide, it's fire and ice - but Lux is desperate to melt him.

Aria Silver considers herself relatively lucky - as far as teenagers go. She goes to a good school, has good friends, is on the varsity cheerleading team, and has a family as decent as families get. She's happy and can hardly imagine anything changing. That is, until the week of tequila, the sirens of an ambulance, a new boy, and a funeral. After realizing that life isn't all what it's made up to be sometimes, Aria is left to her own resorts to try to answer some of the worlds longest, burning questions: In a world full of so much despair, how do we find something worth living for? How do we keep fighting, even if we fail to see the silver linings?