Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She is also the light of her father's life, a straight-A student, a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who has always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence, and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family, and herself, seems to be a lie.