Valerie Rothwell has been extremely unstable lately. Born with depression and a temper of the same intensity, she finds herself mad at her mother for being so weak, she's mad at her stepmother for stealing her dad away from her and her mother (among other things), mad at her father for leaving her mother, and mad at herself for not being as strong as she wants to be, and letting herself feel nonexistent to almost everyone around her. Her only (non self-harming) escape is the Morningstar Academy of the Arts, where she plays the violin. But even that has been taken from her, since her father forces her to be a day student at the academy instead of living on campus like she has previously. Needless to say, Valerie is pissed. What happens when one of the popular guys on campus is suddenly around her "home" all the time? Will he make her life a little more bearable? Or will he, or his player-ish ways, make everything worse?