Valara Harris: A 17 year old highschooler.
Is a bit different from everyone else.
For starters she was from a different country, born in England, UK. And had to move because her sisters got contracts to work in and the US. She was an outsider at home and school. She had grown used to the loneliness, and grown cold to everyone around her. Can her hidden heart ever be shown?
Lucas Albergo: Italian-American 17 year old teenager and captain of the school swim team. Talented, intelligent, handsome, and so many more gifts. Lucas was used to getting whatever he wanted and never complained, even when it came at a cost. A disciplined, virtuous son, born to an Italian-American father and Italian mother; raised in California. But can one be truly perfect?
Chanel Taylor: a rich 17 year old teenager, taught by money. Born to Austrian parents. Whose reputations mattered more to them than anything. Raised in California, and seen as a jewel to the family's prestige. She's your average mean, popular girl. But is there more beneath the surface of this privileged Princess' life?
Explore the thrilling journeys of Val, Lucas and Chanel in this three point POV sequence, as they navigate through their picture perfect worlds, and undergo changes, physically and emotionally; while along the way, watching them grow, and learn to accept their differences and imperfections.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.