Emily Brochair was your typical sixteen-year-old girl, but on her seventeenth birthday, her world drastically changes when her best friend hooks up with their best friend and Emily's childhood crush Jake, devastating her more than she could have imagined. Jake had always been there, had always been the one she could turn to despite their social differences. Emily shuts herself off from the world, unsure of how to get beyond the betrayal and live life as though neither Taylor nor Jake existed, no matter how hard it may be. Chase Winters wasn't looking for any type of attachment, he liked to breeze through life unhindered and alone, as cold as his last name. At least alone is less messy. He knew too well what it was like to let yourself get attached to someone, only to watch them move on as though you never existed. Then Emily Buchair comes blowing into his life like a hurricane. Their lives are thrown together in a whirlwind of mystery and fear as when Emily moves in to the local murder house, but the stories are just that, stories. Until those stories become so much more. She unwitingly drags Chase in to the whole mess when he unknowingly saves her life.Chase knows the dangers of what could happen around here if poeple dug to deep. He knows Emily could very well be in danger as she digs for the answers she feels so desperate to find, he tries to pullher away from her obsession but the more she finds the harder it gets.