Meet Alice, a girl who is always outgoing, writes for the school newspaper, and is known by almost every student in the school. Now meet Matthew, a guy who has lived his life hiding his talents from the world, never talks to the other students, and, without anybody other than his mom and sister knowing, is dying because his heart is half dead, and his family can't afford to get a new heart for him in time. When Alice bumps into him, and I mean literally runs right into him in the hall, she decides she wants to get to know him as well as she knows everyone else. Will she open him up, or will he die before she has chance? Only reading can tell.