From the moment they met, her past tried to destroy them. Now Jack is fighting back.
Jack Thornton believes himself an ordinary teenage boy, living an ordinary teenage life in the most ordinary of teenage ways. He is sure he has average intelligence, average looks, and an average level of popularity. But he has a plan for life, a simple path to a well-paid mundane job to achieve a life of respectability and comfort. But through the relationship of his best friend Charlie, he meets Becca, who has smarts and a tongue and an edge to her intelligence. She sees the present and future in ways he could not. She feels her voice is important. But her past is what weighs her down, what gives her a weakness in the strength of personality she puts out on show.
Becca is serious and driven, and she is chasing a position of importance. Jack, desperate to spend more time with her, becomes part of her team, offering his help, with which he wants to propel her to her goals. Soon he realizes that she means more to him than he could ever have known. But a new boy on campus with money, popularity, and a gift for verbal influence, uses all his power to bring her down and destroy the lives of his friends and family. Jack must set out to use parts of his personality he has always hidden to show how he feels and fight back against the manifested effects of the misogynistic worldview of too many men around him.
