Life can change in an instant. It can change when you least expect it. Sometimes it is for the best. I have been a keeper of many secrets since I was old enough to know what secrets were. No one knew the truth, knew the real me and what goes on behind closed doors. No one knows about the abuse I suffer at the hands of my father. No one knows about the cuts and scars I hide from the world. Why? Because I choose for it to be that way. To the outside world, I am your average teenager, but in reality, all I am is a broken girl with no one to love her, to see the real sadness in my eyes. Until him,Ryland, the new boy in town, the stranger that sees right through me from the moment we meet. We are drawn to each other like a moth to a flame, but the more I get to know him, the more I see I am not the only one fighting demons. He has his own. To start with, he was nothing but a pain in my ass, but day by day, we grow closer and become something that the others didn't realize we needed. A bond develops between us that becomes unbreakable. I don't think either of us realized that when two broken souls come together, it would be the thing that gets us both on the road to healing. He shows me something I haven't felt since my mum was still alive, something my father tried to make me believe that I didn't deserve, which is called love.