Kate has a secret, as everyone does. Right before she moved to Maryland, Kate was diagnosed with Leukemia. Now all she has to do is keep it a secret. The problem is Kate falls in love with her best friend's boyfriend, Derek. Once Derek finds out, the word "cancer" spreads like wildfire. Kate decides to go living her life like normal and Dr. Lemeix, Kate's physician, has found a cure. There's a catch, there's only a five percent chance she's going to live through it. Kate has to decide between living the rest of her days out with Derek or under go the needle for her life.

Becoming an adult comes with making the difficult choices. Katie White is a student at Lightstaff Academy, a preparatory high school in Michigan whose students go on to attend Juilliard. Her overprotective parents control most everything in her life-including the boys she dates. But when her mother chooses Zack, things go from bad to worse. An abusive drunk, Zack eventually works his "magic" and gets Katie drunk at a party-and promptly leaves her. But that's when Chris, a boy her parents would never approve of, steps in to save the day. Katie likes his bad boy look but, even more importantly,...