To some people, friendship is the most important thing. Especially when they have no one else. Dixie Ixon has a story, just as everyone else. With stories, come a beginning a middle and an end. Just nine years old Dixie saw her parents die, and at eleven her own brother, but between that time she meets a boy. A boy that keeps her afloat in the middle of the water. That boy is Toby Rogers, who has a fate that neither of them know about.