Suicide should be the last thing on Kim's mind. She's on track for being valedictorian of her senior class and getting into the perfect college. Then her parents' separation ruins everything. Suddenly, she finds herself in a downward spiral of depression and academic confusion. Despite her study efforts, she's in danger of getting a B in Calculus. That can't happen. Kim believes the only way she can afford to attend the university she wants is through academic scholarships, by being at the top of her class, a perfect GPA, first place, valedictorian. Her whole future is riding on her grades....

When tall, gorgeous Brody asks Olivia to the prom, she's ecstatic-until he suggests that she use the two months before the dance to lose some weight. Does he think she's fat? His comment sends Olivia on a spiral of insecurity and dangerously rapid weight loss that borders on anorexia. As her pounds vanish, her friendship deepens with Ross, the new prep cook at the diner where she works. Despite his mysterious limp, he doesn't suffer crippling low self-esteem like Olivia does; usually, she can't even look at herself in the mirror anymore. But when she's riding dirt bikes and searching for...

Adrianna is drowning her grief. Sixteen months ago, her mother died. With her father traveling so much, and her older sister away at college, no one notices that she's been slowly draining her mother's extensive wine collection. She drinks to forget an awful secret. She drinks until she goes numb. Now, she can't seem to quit. Since moving to a new school, she has no really close friends or teachers who know her, which means that eighteen-year-old Adrianna has nothing to stop her free-fall. There is no one to help her deal with her pain. Then she meets Ian.