Thea James is a lost soul, a beautiful girl who appears to be confident and sure of herself, but as her 18th birthday quickly approaches, her facade begins to crack. An unexpected reunion with a childhood crush has her loosening her grip on the walls she has built around her, but as those walls begin to crumble, the raw ugly truth of her past begins to seep through. Suddenly engulfed by the trauma, which she had worked so hard to lock away, the person she least expected is the one guiding her back to the light. But what she doesn't realize is that she is the one pulling him out of the darkness.

Diana Smith is running from a harrowing past, at just 17 she runs, runs until her legs can’t carry her anymore, until her heart beats violently inside her rib cage, until her chest can no longer expand, allowing oxygen into her lungs. But what Diana isn’t expecting, is that the quaint little town of Quincy, is the last place she wanted to land. As much as she was running from him, she was also running from the nightmares that he filled her with. But can Elijah Black, the High-school heartthrob, the towns poster boy, change her mind?