Marie has moved around a lot since her mother passed away. Her father a officer in the military she follows him from post to post, but with each time they move her father makes her a promise that they will remain there to allow her some since of normality. When they move to Summer Cove Marie's father makes the same promise . She starts a new school thinking it will be like all the other schools that she has been too, but when she meets Brody and his friends things change.