Alex Caraway is beginning her final year of high school, and at eighteen years old she believes that she has everything planned out, until something, or someone rather, unexpected appears. Alex has guarded secrets, secrets that she doesn't dare share with anyone, not even her best friend, Benjamin Scott. But when this certain someone appears in her life, she immediately feels a strong connection and a sense of trust, two things she has never felt before in her life. Now, she must decide whether to let him in or continue suffocating as she was before, slowly sinking into oblivion.