After a terrible summer, Venice Thornbe is left with nothing. Over the course of three months she fell out of love, got an abortion, and witnessed her best friend die. But her parents give her the chance to start over at a new school in Vermont. Though this school seems quite perfect, is everything what it seems? Her new friend Della looks disturbingly similar to her dead best friend...her ex-boyfriend is her new math teacher...and the boy she is falling for seems harmless, but is he hiding something behind those rusty red eyes? Venice's summer troubles are far from over as she begins to un-cover secrets that could change everything...