Sometimes love can transcend time, obstacles, differences, even life and death. For three young girls, coming of age in the nineties, nothing can be closer to the truth. Lonna is a tough streetwise female growing up in a house with seven other siblings, a distant mother, an absent unknown father, and a clandestinely insecure twin sister. Despite the devotion of her new found best friend, her circumstances turn from tolerable to tragic causing her to gain an addiction that only she can pull herself out of by breaking the hard shell she has encased herself in. New-New is looking for the love that has been missing from her life, in all the wrong ways, until the walls of the happy facade she has built come crashing down around her. Karla is the independent, overly compassionate only child with dreams of saving the world and becoming the next hot African American author, when she finds herself entangled in the issues and problems of a family that is not even her own. Seemingly surrounded by secrets, a confession from Karla's father and painfully broken hearts alter all three of their lives forever.