Imagine being a 16 year old girl one minute living with her parents and loving life and slowly watches her life fall apart at the seams the next. Young Brooke loses her grandfather from cancer and on the way to the funeral her parents get into a car accident and both are killed. With no one to live with Brooke is sent to live with her aunt Jean who she barely remembers in Anna Illinois. On the way there a young man around her age catches her eye and she soon finds out he is also going to Anna Illinois after a split up between his mother and father. Brooke soon figures out starting out fresh isn't such a bad thing.