Samantha is a seventeen year old girl who seems to have it all. Beauty and brains, because she is in an extraordinary advanced school programme. She is also extremely good at sports and people liked her right away. From the outside it looks like she has everything, but no one knows what she hides behind her smile. After an incident Samantha decides she has to leave her old life behind, but she can't leave her little sister with her mother. Eventually she and Emma move so they can live with their aunt and cousins. There she gets the life she always dreamed about. A normal and stable life, where she is loved and cared for. She starts to trust people and she even begins to believe in love again. Alexander is handsome, sexy and the most caring person she knows. He loves her, but he knows she is hiding things for him and her family. How could she not? Nobody could ever find out about her past, because they would never look at her the same way again. An encounter with someone from her past leads to her secrets being revealed and Samantha is once again caught up in the life she had tried so desperately to escape