Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's a straight-A student, a pretty and popular freshman in high school, and the light of her father, Daniel's life. However, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence.

Suddenly, everything Trixie has believed about her family—and herself—seems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past, venture to hell and back to protect his daughter.

Jodi Picoult offers a powerful chronicle as she explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime—or if your mistakes are carried forever.