Seventeen-year-old Alice Julian wakes in the middle of the night being attacked by her mother's fiancé. To escape the cycle of abuse she's been trapped in for years, Alice runs away from home. She never could have expected what happens next.

Alice enters into a relationship with classmate Christopher Roblanch, but he has family troubles of his own. As Alice finds her long lost father, Chris struggles to let go of his need to control and let Alice be herself.

Alice must decide if she wants a relationship with her father, but there's a good chance she could end up broken and alone. Meanwhile, Alice and Chris fight to hang on to each other when deeply rooted problems and secrets threaten to ruin the new love they've found.