Marley Lawrence, a city girl from Detroit who's life changes when her father passes away. Everyone seemed so happy, smiling, laughing, but a photograph is just a fading memory. Her mother becomes an alcoholic, her best friend and her brother, Connor, becomes introduced to cigarettes which causes anger issues, he deals drugs for money to pay off the house, her moms new boyfriend hates her brother. Marley lives in a world of hate, crime and anger. After a tragic accident she sets out to fufill her dream of the one thing she loves, snowboarding.
Renee had everything. She was the cheer-leading captain, Miss Popular, and had the perfect boyfriend. Everyone loved her. She had everything a girl could ever want and never once did she imagine what would happen if she lost it all.
After a freak accident that killed both her parents, Renee gets a kick from reality. Forced to move to her aunt and uncle's with her kid brother, she has to spend the rest of her senior year at a boarding school. As she sinks into a depression, she learns, truly, what it feels to fall.