When given the chance to live with her father and his family after a horrible incident, Rose jumps at the opportunity leaving her druggie mother to sink deeper into debt. From New York to California is quite the big difference, especially in school. After revealing her very popular ex boyfriend had forced himself on her in her own home she is pushed away from every kind of group in the high school scale, now in a new school she finds that both sides of the scale want to pull her closer to them. With nothing to loose but every thing to gain, she finds herself being introduced to the schools bad boy and all time leader of the rejects, Beau Maddox. Pale skin, multiple piercings, hyped up music, and an attitude that needs a reality check, he is drawn to her need for affection and intends to fill the gaps. Though when she has an anxiety attack after a fight the night before, she finds herself in the arms of a popular football player Blaine Anderson, who leads the path back to the school life style she had with her ex, Rose is faced with the decision of picking one side or other, but that proves harder than it sounds when both sides are at war each an every day. Rose finds that she is the only link that stands between the lines of the what is right and what others say is right.