Sam just lost her mother to cancer a few weeks ago. Her whole world finally for once has shattered into a million little pieces, and she can't pick it up. Sam has always had music to cope and deal with things, but now it seems that she has no inspiration whatsoever to write. She's fighting on the verge on insanity, and desperately trying to find her way back to what she always used to know. The summer that just begun has obstacles that she never thought she would have to face. Sam, unhappy with herself, and all of her songs coming out the same, sets out on a mission to find herself, but will she uncover more than she anticipated when an fearless mystery man guy comes into the equation? He holds a dark, traumatizing past that no child should ever have to go through, but is that enough to excuse the damage he's already done?

In a Broken City, filled with warring tribes, lives: A girl with no future A man with no past A little lost boy And those who seek to find him.... ....Welcome to Deeta's world. Deeta Richards has never seen the outside world. Before she was born a banking crisis brought civilization to an end and now no one leaves the safety of the compounds unless they need to, but Deeta still dreams of seeing more than the building she was born in. Tom is in the guard, this group are the only people that the tribal elders allow to leave the compound and Tom knows only too well that Deeta could never survive the harshness that exists outside. Then tragedy strikes and Deeta and her Sister Jan find themselves captured by a hostile tribe. Why does Tom know so much about these people? And why do they know so much about him? As this mystery draws to a climax, they discover that their friend Tom is not quite what he seems.....