Hope and Heather have been friends for years. But Heather's two older brothers have always teased and bullied the two, especially Hope. Luckily, Hope manages to avoid them for a couple of years while they are away at college.

But when Hope moves closer to her friend, she finds out the two are returning and will have no chance of avoiding them forever.

What would happen if you fall for your best friend's brother?

Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to almost all that surrounds him.

As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow student and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry delves into the notebook, complications arise.

An immensely powerful work that explores teenage depression, moral vacuity, and the confusion of love, this is a claustrophobic and harrowing piece of fiction.