Their eyes had met from across the crowded room, music blaring in the background. Sparks flew, passion flared and it took one single night in the heat of the moment to wreck 17 year old Rachel Warner's life. She's pregnant with Jason Reinhardt's child, the school's imfamous bad boy but what if the rumors weren't completely true? What if Jason wasn't completely bad? And what happens when she wants to keep her baby? Jason Reinhardt hates his family, who had ruined his mother's health due to their cruelty just because his mother had been the maid of the Reinhardt family before his wealthy father married her. Once his mother died, Jason left to live on his own, forsaking his inheritence and vowing to never ask for his fathers help for anything but then Rachel and their baby suddenly steps into the picture. He remembers their wreckless night of passion and by the innocence he's seen in Rachel's eyes, he knows he's the father. Her warm presence, her laughter and stubbornness touches a place in his heart that he didn't even realize he had. And she's given him something he's always wanted. A family. But will their new found "family" survive the trails of life? Will their bond break or grow stronger? Only time will tell. And what does their fathers have to say about all this? -- There are also side stories of Rachel's friends Nancy and Dana. Tough girl Nancy Griffin is trying to fend off charming British hunk Gerard Hemmingway's advances...will she risk giving her heart out to him? And Dana is having a "forbidden" relationship that even her 2 best friends don't know about...how will their reactions be when they do find out?

Kris is alone having to deal with her alcoholic father, with no one to turn to. Her past is corrupted by her father and she feels doomed to deal with another act of her dad's abuse. James is here for a reason, something he doesn't know what yet. But when he meets Kris, something seems different. What will happen to Kris and James as their lives become intertwined with each other? What will happen to Kris' family?

Riley Reynolds woke up in an orphanage without any memory of her life before. Her therapist, Mr. Morris, whose also been a father figure to her has been trying to get her to remember, but to no avail. Two years later, Riley is finally eighteen and is allowed to leave the orphanage. Fortunately, she gets accepted to Cornell University and she couldn't be more excited. What she doesn't know is that she can never run away from her past even if she can't remember it. Fate tends to find you, even in the most disturbing ways...

Cairo Blanchard could only be summed up in one word- Doormat. Docile and kind to the point of ridiculousness, Cairo is often over looked and cast aside. Not anymore. It took one summer for it all to change. Starting with a mysterious diary arriving on her birthday, she was spurred to change. Taking one Best Friend with a secret and her dim but beautiful brother, Cairo makes a clean break and ends up in the middle of something she never could have imagined. Beautiful scenery, humorous adventures and wayward anti Heroes are waiting for her, along with a story that waited for her to unveil it all.