Madeline Bell has seen it all. She'd been raped, left for dead on the ruthless streets of California, and survived through a year of rehab. Leaving her best friends, her mom's grave, and the city she grew up in; Madeline and her father move across the United States to Chincoteague Island, an island off the coast of Virginia, in an attempt to escape the haunting memories. Sometimes Madeline wished she'd died; the horror of reliving that fateful night continues to linger in her mind. She trusts no one, not even her own shadow. Then, she meets Spencer Everhart, the boy who will teach her to trust again, the boy who will protect her with his life; her knight in board shorts and leather flip-flops.
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.