Karson James Ross didn't think there was anything more to life than slumming the streets of Chicago looking for a place to get high and to crash, to run away from his fears and what the doctors called "clinical depression." He tried to come clean -- really he did -- after his brother Taylor died in a tragic car accident and his widowed mother attempted suicide for the second time. Realizing that he nearly lost the only family he had left, he decided it was time to reevaluate his own life. After putting the drugs and alcohol behind (for the most part), he cleaned up his act, got a job at a music store, even managed to get straight A's in school. But he was still from the wrong side of town, still a former druggie, still not good enough -- until he had the chance to start over.

Charlotte Elyse Rhoslyn didn't think she would ever need a guy. In fact, she thought guys were nothing but trouble, and she'd had more than enough secret troubles with men. Never knowing her father and living with her grandparents after her mother overdosed on oxycodone, she hadn't exactly lived the perfect life. Of course, growing up in a small town like Adelee, everyone thought they knew her story. Little did they know she had a secret looming over her like a dark, grey rain cloud her entire life.

When Karson's mother announced that they were moving to Adelee, -- a town that consists of a school, gas station, burger joint, and bowling alley -- Karson didn't think he'd survive, let alone find himself there. But Adelee suddenly seems a lot more exciting seeing it for the first time with a girl so adventurous, so unbelievably beautiful, so perfectly mysterious... So different from anyone else he'd ever met.

When Charlotte's friends announced that she needed to get over her guy issues, she shruggged it off, thinking they'd never understand even if she told them. She didn't need a boy to make her happy, to make her fit in. Then again, no boy had ever opened her eyes to a world so bright, so beautiful, so wondrous as the one he saw right inside her own heart.

A story of romance and heartbreak, lies and deception, secrets and the search for happiness. When two opposite world's collide, what more could you expect?