Lucy Albright arrives on the campus of her small California college happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother, whom she's never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. She meets Stephen DeMarco: charming, complicated, devastating. He sees something in Lucy that no one else has, and she's quickly seduced by the sense of possibility that his attention brings her. But she knows there's something about Stephen that isn't to be trusted. Their addicting entanglement will have consequences they never could have imagined.