Avery Hope is NOT your average teenager. She has a strong disliking of everyone else her age, and is always trying to be different from everyone in her school. She only has one friend, Simon, and their friendship mainly consists of a comfortable silence and reading comic books.
When Charlie, a seemingly average person, transfers to her school, Avery just sees him as just another person to dislike. However, when they become lab partners, Avery learns he has terminal skin cancer and is also insociable. Soon, Charlie becomes friends with Simon and Avery,
However, soon, it becomes apparent that Charlie hasn't got much time left. Together, they devise a bucket list of things they have all wanted to experience, and set out to complete it as fast as they can before time runs out for Charlie.
Remy Vallory was the loser at Anchor Way High School. People picked on her and her big brown ray ban glasses, her crooked teeth behind white braces. Her frizzy black hair and straight A's. She was on the soccer team but that didn't stop the student body from bullying her, more or less the one she hoped to love her. Remy had no friends and her only companion was her dog Leroy. She hated her life and she didn't understand what was so wrong with herself.
Then as if answering her thoughts she is out of that life and put into one with one window a wooden chair ropes and a door. Sealed confinement.
She worshiped her dad and knew he was coming to find her, because he wouldn't let anything happen to her. They had a bond ever since they lost the one they loved. But when Jake points out her daddy's little secret that bond is broken. Everything that happened to her in the past ten years came crashing down all at once and she wants in on her dads take down.
The victim is ready to fight back.