In Orien, the government is everything. They pick your name, your friends, your pets. No choice is your own, but the government had people convinced that this is the best and easiest way of life. Lillian Montgomery believes in them fully. That is until the government kills her parents and she is sent to an orphanage in the middle of nowhere. There, she meets Pop. A kind elderly old man who treats her like his daughter. Lillian is perfectly happy and has almost completely gotten over the loss of her parents, when the government interferes yet again, and Pop is arrested. Lillian, deciding she can't take anymore loss, flees to the woods, and changes what the government has made her. She spends weeks planning an attack on the government, and when it finally comes in to action, she finds that she is not alone.
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.