When Everlinn's father moves out of the house and moves in with a woman Everlinn barely notices his absence but it's slowly and painfully killing her mother and 3 months later she commits suicide leaving an note that's describing her pain. Now Everlinn has to (reluctantly) live with her father, but does she find the one that might be able to fill the hole in her heart? She tries to ignore him for he brings the two thing Everlinn has lost: hope and love. Torn between love and pain Everlinn must decide between a boy that she barely knows or her mother who raised her.