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Mara Dawson has become desperate to be heard. Her parents don't listen despite having a pair of ears that work just fine. So when they shove her into the business world during her 18th birthday party, where her two friends, classmates with whom she rarely engaged if she could help it, and her parents' business partners that have no business (no pun intended) being at a teenager's birthday party, she has enough.

"Hear. Me. Out." I say with a barely rein anger.
"Oh my god," Mr. and Mrs. Dawson say, shocked at her sudden behavior.

Alexander Carter infuriates Mara, but not like her mother does. Instead, he's like a fresh breath of air, and Mara craves it no matter how she constantly reminds herself to stay away from him. But Alexander's green eyes continually scan her like a CCTV, and he has knowledge about her that no one else realizes, even herself. He also keeps secrets and is cryptic about them. But Mara knows he means well. Or at least that's what she thought until her birthday party, where the truth prevails, and Mara is left wondering who Alexander Carter is and what he wants with her.

Follow the journey of Mara Dawson and Alexander Carter in a cruel world where eighteen-year-olds feelings are ignored-teenagers who are forced into a business world that feels like a lion's den.

What the world has become? It is a question that plays like a loop in their story.