Defect

Human beings cannot love. The existance of such a feeling is denied and has been declared a mental disorder known as emotional schizophrenia. Very rarely, a child will be born as a defect, a person capable of love. Declared insane, they are taken away to mental institutions 'to fight the disease'. Those taken away never come back.
Mckenna has spent her entire life hiding the defect from everyone: her friends, her family, and especially her neighbor, Ben, the boy she's been in love with for years. But all it takes is one drunken night for Mckenna to tell him everything--and before the night is out, she's being hauled away to the Markum Mental Institution. Suddenly thrust into a world of mindnumbing medication, guarded doors and orderlies armed with sedatives, Mckenna finds herself lost and alone in an unfamiliar world.
She soon finds friends in her quirky (although not entirely harmless) fellow patients. Most intriguing of all though is Cole, a fellow defect who refuses to bend to everyone's assertion that the defect is wrong or fake. The defect for Mckenna had always meant heartache and tears, but suddenly she's seeing a whole new side to the defect; the one you can only see with someone else. Finding herself involved in a possibly fake, possibly wrong, definately illegal relationship, Mckenna and Cole will have to work hard to prove to the world that they aren't defects, but instead two people in love. However, to do that, they will have to solve a seemingly impossible puzzle: what exactly is the secret behind the defect?