Olivia Grey grows up having two of the most loving parents. Once she turns seventeen she experiences the loss of both her parents, just in different ways. As her mother copes with depression, Olivia starts off her senior year of high school juggling a job to support her and her mother. Forgetting what it feels like to be a teenager, she stumbles across Jace, a boy who reminds her of the ambition and life her father originally planned for her. Jace helps her experience life differently, still struggling, she endures the weight of the world as she begins to fall for the boy who made her promise she wouldn't dare fall in love, to begin with.