Alexandra McKell is an eighteen-year old girl who knows what it is to be gone. What it is to have lost everything you have ever known. What it is to not love and not care. Because Alex's parents are dead and so are her relations. The only way she actually goes to school is by working at a Starbucks cafe. She doesn't love or care because no one loves her or cares for her. Rejected and yet rebellious, Alex fights her way through life. But when a handsome newcomer to the small town meets her and falls for her hard, will Alex finally learn how to love? Or will she still be forever Gone?