It was years ago, or so Sarah Gibson's friends and family tell her whenever she mentions the school shooting that forever tainted her high school career. Pushing this event to the back of her mind and moving on with life was Sarah's constant plight. Now, as Sarah's daughter Reese prepares to head off to high school, the emotions Sarah had so long suppressed force themselves back into her consciousness. Suddenly left with no choice but to confront these memories, she must deal with her fears and finally work through her feelings of guilt. While others insist that Sarah has nothing for which to...

Freedom. That's what Reese Gibson craves as she heads off to college. Her longing for autonomy, born from the seemingly pointless over-protection her mother insisted on dispensing, leaves her stepping onto campus with one mission - don't get attached. If she doesn't get attached, she knows one thing for sure. She won't make the mistakes her parents made. She won't suffer through four years of college that are free of keg-stands and frat parties and full of baby bottles and diapers. Stay unattached, and all will be well - or so she tells herself. But her parents' mutual past isn't as simple as...