This wasn't supposed to happen. My mom died of cancer a year ago, then my father was just in a car crash. My brother is in the juvenile delinquent center and my sister is in preschool. I am living a person's worst nightmare. My life turned around once I met Shawn. He was the best thing that ever happened to me.

When Hazel's beloved boyfriend (Augustus Waters) dies, she thinks life as she knows it is over. But when she goes to the hospital and discovers that she is pregnant, it is the best thing that ever happened to her...or the worst.

The Great Escape is about a girl trying to escape her horrid life, but comes across a few 'bumps' in her road.