Avery hasn't had it easy since her mother died. Now she's stuck with an abusive father who takes every chance he can to cause her blood to end up on the floor. She's a loner, yet somehow a guy ends up drifting closer and closer to her walls. With her believing everything her so called father calls her how can she learn to care for anyone if she can't care for herself. And some interesting stuff happens when Avery's father finds out about her new friend...

Nick lost Leah, his secret girlfriend, last summer. By going back to his classes, he thought he would be able to forget about the pain of her loss. But then enters Andrea, her identical twin, sharing the same classes with him.