For fighting in the school yard, Palm Beach politics decreed that young Corey Brecken be exiled to reform school to "have some sense beaten into him." He is sent to the Tower Military Academy, far from home and at the mercy of strangers. A stroke of luck lands him on the good side of the school's headmaster, and despite dire circumstances, things start looking up.

When Corey meets Leto-the headmaster's daughter-he finds a kindred spirit. They quickly fall into intense young love, detected by the woman known as Deepfreeze, Leto's mother. Deepfreeze has always resented her pretty daughter...