17 year old Annabel Lee Carter is thought to have a good life to everyone at school and in the town, but in reality, her mother ignores her, her father abuses both her and her mother, and she's doomed to love a man she could never be with. She struggles through it all day by day, the hope that when she turns eighteen, her soulmate, Ethan Jonathon Christopher, will take her away from all of it. But can she hold out long enough? Or will she be carried away in the storm?