The tale of a gifted teenager who finds that mastering high school is much easier than mastering her heart. Mayfair Cummings is young, beautiful, and brilliant. But her intelligence makes her the outcast of both the private school she attends and the broken family she hopes to salvage. When she catches the eye of both a popular senior and her handsome English teacher, not even her brilliant mind can help her navigate the explosive new relationships...

Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina college town and sets out in search of her birth family amid the glamour of Palm Beach, where she falls head over heels for a young lawyer, but soon the truth about her family threatens her happiness and pushes her to the brink of insanity.