Mark Bennett knows all about piling on, and not just because he plays high school football. Life keeps tackling him when he's down. First his baby sister died. Then his mother stopped leaving the house. And now his father has moved them to a small town where Mark can't relate to anyone, not even his own teammates. Well...there is one person who might understand Mark, one person who might see him for who he truly is: Lizzie Walker. He doesn't know that, though. In fact, he only knows three things about Lizzie: her father's the town drunk, her grades are in the gutter, and she's the girlfriend of the guy who just punched him in the face.