Aspen Fair is the smart, sweet, cute girl that likes to sit in the middle of the classroom. She doesn't stand out like the populars or the nerds or the outcasts. She is just a girl who attends school most days and tries to keep her nose in her own business. This seems to work for 16 years of her life. Then everything changes. On her 17th birthday, things start to happen. Bad things. First, it starts out small. The birthday cake is chocolate instead of vanilla, her dog puked on her shoes, and she has an allergic reaction to flowers her mother got to put on the tables. Small things. Then, bigger things happen. Her brother slips on some random icing on the floor and hits his head on the table so hard that it starts to bleed. Aspen's best friend's mother dies. And the epitome of all bad things... Aspen's father is diagnosed with blood cancer or Leukemia. Aspen has no clue what is happening but for some reason she gets the gut feeling it's her fault. Her mother seems to know what's up but won't talk. She instead insists that Aspen takes a much needed vacation. Aspen hesitantly agrees after talking to her father, and her mother ships her to her Aunt Maple's house. Only problem... Aunt Maple is crazy. Also the neighbor boy. And doughnuts.