Elise was a normal girl. She got good grades, always listened to her parents, and never got in trouble at school. She was a bookworm. She had medium length brown hair and hard-to-tell blue eyes. She was not considered short, but not tall either. Her best friends Melody and Ebony were the opposites of each other. Melody was tall with wavy black hair that fell down to her butt. With her almond shaped eyes and heart shaped face, she was total cheerleader material. Ebony was short and had her blonde hair in a pixie cut. Though her hazel eyes are hidden behind huge glasses and she still has braces on since she was 14. As you can tell, Ebony is the nerd in the group. Elise is the glue that holds the three girls together. But when Elise is pulled away from the group, you won't be seeing Melody and Ebony with each other anymore. James was the star baseball player at Holcutt High School, home of the fighting leopards. He was the guy that all the girls wanted to date and all the guys wanted to be friends with. He has known his buddies, Carter and Landon, since before pre-k. Their mothers have known each other since high school. Carter and Landon are twins and are on the baseball team too. Carter plays shortstop. He has floppy brown hair that covers his eyes. Landon keeps his hair short. He plays second base. Besides the haircut, the boys look exactly alike. They both have naturally tan skin, dark brown eyes, lean muscular bodies, and stand at five foot nine. Landon is the romantic one. He always gives flowers to a girl that he likes and you can find him writing poetry behind the bleachers. Carter is the total player. He has a girlfriend per week and you can always find him making out with one in the halls.
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.