When Aubrey Miller begins her education at Titan University, she is no longer the beautiful, blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl of her youth. Now with jet-black hair, multiple sets of eccentric contact lenses, and several facial piercings, shes veiled herself in complete darkness as a form of protection for herself, as well as others. As she enters her first year of college, her goal is simple: earn a degree with the least amount of social interaction as possible. What she never anticipates is the formation of very unlikely relationships with two people who will change her life in ways she never believed possible: Quinn Matthews, the overtly cheerful pageant queen, and Kaeleb McMadden, a childhood friend who never really let her go. Eventually, the ties of friendship and discovery of first love begin to coax her from her darkened path as they slowly bring Aubrey back to life. Spanning the course of four years, this is the story of a young womans plight to finally reemerge, finding strength within unbreakable bonds as she delivers herself from her own manufactured darkness and safely back...Into the Light.