Samantha Danley's father sends her away to an exclusive girl's boarding school in Connecticut knowing that his days are short as his diseased body rapidly steals his ability to function. Feeling the loss of being ripped from her home and loving father, Samantha slowly adjusts to her new life. Before her twenty-first birthday, Samantha is summonsed home to Boston by her father's lawyer to take control of her inheritance but she doesn't plan on staying until she meets Thomas O'Malley. Her journey of independence and love is anything but a fairy tale as she struggles with abandonment and heartbreak but her will to survive grows with each turn of life.