Ashley Bethany Kiyomi Noelle: Supermodel...Daughter of French Energy Tycoon, Henri Gaston Noelle and his famous chemist wife from Japan, Amaterasu Inoue-Noelle. Ashley is also cursed with unearthly beauty. An unannounced appearance by her has literally cause riots to break out Yet, with all of her wealth and fame, Ashley is a miserable, lonely teen-ager. To rectify their daughter's loneliness, her family moves to the United States where they find a perfectly small town called Sunrise, Florida. On her first day of school, however, nothing seems to change. Ashley Noelle is chased and hounded by students from classroom to classroom. When all seemed lost and she resigns that she will always be a "freak," she bumps into a tall, geeky boy who has never heard of her and is not phased by her at all Could this be true? Could he and this small town be the key to a normal life? "Welcome to Sunrise" is the first in the Noelle saga where the fate of the world will rest on the shoulders of a little town, a group of high school kids, with Ashley Noelle residing at the center of all.