After serving six months in a juvenile detention center, Lucas Carson returns home irrevocably changed by what happened there. Traumatized, Lucas shuts himself out from everyone he loves, even his younger sister, Lily, who ran away from home when she was pregnant at sixteen. When Lily resurfaces years later, Lucas can't cope with his guilt about not being there for her. He takes off, only to cross paths with Shiloh Bloom -- fifteen, homeless, and, like Lucas, escaping the past. All Lucas sees in her is the little sister he neglected. Believing this is his chance to absolve past mistakes, he takes Shiloh in. He gives her food and shelter. She gives him a purpose. Together they invent a background for her and form a bond. But the risk of discovery grows. Lucass sisters arent the only ones looking for him. So are Shilohs mother and the police. If Lucas wants to heal and have a future, he must stop running and face everything hes left behind.
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