Carey Thompson has been through a lot. First, her parents got divorced, and then her alcoholic mother went off to France and married a stranger. Even worse, her stepfather wanted her as part of the family, inviting her to visit one summer. Nothing was ever the same after that. Not only did her dad find a girlfriend while she was away, but the rest of her world was changing too. She grew closer to her mother and more distant from her father, and she began to question where she really belonged. As she entered high school, her world continued to shift, until there seemed to be no way out. Except for maybe Jean-Edouard. It was the one thing she knew for sure: Carey never thought she'd fall in love with her stepbrother.