Summary:

Kali is left scarred and confused when her little brother is killed in a school shooting. Kali throws herself into her writing, but it doesn't seem to take the pain away. She knows she could have protected her brother if she had just left a few minutes earlier. Soon, her mother is also taken from her and the social services announces that she is going to have to pack up and move from her home in Colorado, to New Jersey with her Uncle. Kali finds herself torn by the move. She knows she needs to get away, but she doesn't want to leave the place where her and her brother had grown up. But in New Jersey, Kali finds someone. She doesn't want to accept it, but she realizes that he just might be good for her. He just might be able to help her realize that it wasn't her fault, and help her cope with her survivors guilt.