Maddison Thompson is a basket case, a foster child, a lost cause. But things weren't always that way. Two years ago she was the center of attention at her local high school: Pinole Valley. Now everything has changed. She had everything, nice house, money, popular friends and the perfect jock boyfriend: Ryan Stone. Whispers go around about her, and the rumors differ. No one knows why she's changed, why she's become a different kind of attention getter. Secrets. She hated secrets. She had too many of them to count. Her life couldn't possibly get any worse, but then she runs into Mike Pritchard and reconsiders exactly just how much worse her life could really get.