Cassia Blake was always the girl that was silently hurting. Her parents weren't together, she fought with her mother, and her sister was severely depressed. She put up a good front for school and had a few really great friends and was always in the top 10 of her class academically. She played a sport and blended in. Then she experienced death first hand and started to crumble. Who would have thought her hero would be Vincent Bain, her school's resident bad boy? With him her life changed as she had never predicted.