The continuing saga of DeLaine Reynolds finds her maturing in ways she never dreamed possible. After promising Kevin to distance herself from her life in Wichita Falls to have an opportunity in her new hometown of Corpus Christi, she embarks on throwing herself into a regular life at school. She knows she can not keep living in two opposite worlds, so she joins the theater arts club at school and finds she is a natural actress. Also on her list of things to do, she finally gets a real high school boyfriend and realizes that even with someone who adores her, she still can't deny her feelings for Kevin. When life seems to finally be good for DeLaine, she finds she is just as conflicted about it as she has ever been. After a date goes violently wrong with someone she trusts, DeLaine decides the only life she wants is in Wichita Falls. Her last summer of her childhood, she goes back to her beloved hometown to her best friend, Bailey and the love of her life, Kevin, only to realize that she no longer belongs there either. Her heart ends up shattered once she returns to begin her senior year of high school and she is left wondering how she can continue to pick up the pieces, time after time.