Sheltered from the outside world since childhood, sixteen-year-old Ekaterina Torres lives with an anxious personality disorder that makes her helpless and practically incapable of taking care of herself. Her world opens up when her aunt, Leona Torres, suddenly makes the difficult decision of taking her out of homeschooling and sending her to public school where she meets Jayce Taylor, a freckle-faced, cold-hearted man with a troubled past. With little Ekaterina being so naive and Jayce being so worldly; the two of them become enthralled with each other. He who became her drug and she who became was his healer.