Brighton Lee, 17 years of age, is a straight A student from Birmingham, Alabama. She is very well rounded through school, writing, and Caiden Liston, the love of her life who she meets in chapter 2. Her father, Andrew Lee, and mother, Karen Lee, are very strict. Being lawyers, this isn't very surprising. Her love is great and heart is innocent, that is until her mother is killed. Her boyfriend, being the last person seen with her mother is a suspect. What else could go wrong?