Don't touch me, don't talk to me. I'm afraid of you. Afraid of everyone. Afraid you'll hurt me. Afraid you'll tear me to pieces. Because that's all I've felt, all I've ever known. ☆ ☆ ☆ To Evelyn, words and touch mean pain. And everyone can see that pain bleeding through her. Especially Noah. Noah Brooks definitely doesn't want to move to Michigan. He wants to stay in California, surfing and fulfilling his hard earned spot of quarterback and captain of the football team while hanging with his tight knit group of friends. Instead, he finds himself dumped into a new school and new football team his senior year of high school. When Noah moves to Evelyn's school, he discovers the horrors of Evelyn's mysterious home life and becomes determined to help her. Him and two others try their best to save her but is it even possible to save such a broken girl? Can Evelyn, the girl whose believed that people are cruel and evil for her entire life, really open up to someone? Let alone, fall in love?