Rose Wilson, Heaven Campbell, and Jack Jennings are just three normal high schoolers who don't quite fit into the social norm. Their softmore year at Harping High School has been about as uneventful and boring as it could possibly get.
Then, there's Ionna Harping, an adopted, homeschooled girl who has just about everything she needs - well, in terms of necessities. Being the Mayor's daughter, she has her life pretty much set. But there is one thing that sets her apart from others, that being her abnormal skin and hair colors, not to mention her pointed ears. According to her parents, it's a disconformity. She has no real friends, for fear they won't accept her for what she really looks like.
By fate, Jack, Rose, and Heaven meet Ionna and each discover their true purpose. Ionna herself may just not be what everyone -and herself - perceive her as.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.