These butterflies have rushed up from my stomach to my chest and have taken shelter there. I know, without a single doubt, that they aren't going anywhere.

Sometimes the bad-boy really is just a bad guy, and sometimes your best friend can be so much more than that.

Sixteen-year-old Abby Henderson thinks she's found the one in Harlow Academy's star football player Dennis Whitmore, but as their relationship blooms, she begins to see that he has a frightening dark side. As Abby is pulled deeper into a false sense of love and loyalty, she finds that she's become someone else, she's pushed her family and best friend Matt away, and she's become submerged with Dennis. She doesn't want to forsake Dennis, who she's promised to stick by if he'll change, but when she realizes she's forsaken herself, she must decide what... and who she truly wants.