Nothing has been the same since Cameron Weber's high school graduation.
The same night Cameron and her best friend Taylor Avery expected to celebrate their future, their backpacking trip in Europe, and their future roomie status at the local college, is the same night that those dreams came crashing to an end. The accident left Cameron permanently scarred and Taylor dead.
Cam made a decision to forget when she went off to college. As her shrink says, "Forget the past. Look ahead. Forget the person who did this to you. Let go of what you can't change."
But when Cam heads off to a Coachella-like festival The Saguaro Festival, the last thing she expects to see is the person who she loved once. The person who changed her life. The person who is responsible for her heartbreak.
After seven years in jail, Shane is free. He ditched the orange jumpsuit and joined a band that took off in a whirlwind of success. But the fame, the travel, and the money means nothing to him because he's still missing a part of his heart and hiding a dark secret.
Shane and Cameron are forever changed by their entwined past. From best friends, to crushes, to mangled and broken, Shane and Cameron are forced to confront their secrets, their past, and the truth about what happened that night.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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