A girl who stared life with her family is left alone, and finding the need to find her brother more consuming than her foster family, she leaves California for Florida. Once in Florida, she is placed in the foster system and is still on the search, only to be disrupted by an earthquake. Her friend dead and her all alone, she is rescued by a man that she meet once, a couple of days before. He knows her secrets and more about her than she does. What is going on in her life? Will she end up shaking the bounds, or falling under?