The city of Amaranth, a city like any other... that's what they say anyway.
A confusing girl, a daredevil, an emo dude, a cinnamon roll, and an athletic hottie decide to group together for a field trip.
Missing her best friend back in England, Lystria Rori Ayers moves to a new high school in the USA. She was known as a transfer student in the middle of her junior year. She expects to be lonely and forgotten in her first month there, but the first two weeks were full of chaos.
She decides to get involved with other people's problems to try and help. It succeeds but sometimes doesn't. But after all the mess, she finds herself surrounded by a group of friends, some in her classes and some not.
She soon figures out that there is a field trip upcoming March, a special event for Juniors and Seniors. It was a 'vacation' for their hard work in school, but no one does any hard work really. Lystria and her friends decide to hang out for the field trip. They arrive in Amaranth, just your average everyday city.
They arrive in Amaranth blindly, not knowing what's going to happen in the future.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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