Following her father's due wedding with another woman, Isla Pendleton is impelled to leave her convenient life back in New York to start from scratch in good old, Pennsylvania. But being bound with another family she barely knows-let alone likes-has stirred unimaginable fury within her. It eventually leads to her provoking a storm of controversy at her new school. She ends up losing all public trust in the fallout of an illegitimate scandal with her music teacher. In the midst of ruckus, the secretly troubled jock of high school pleads for help, introducing her to his complex set of problems and a side that nobody else knows about him. Will she be able to keep up with him, her overbearing in-laws and especially a father whom she's grown to detest over the years?