Noa Rembrandt was found in a dumpster.

Since then, she's been wanting only one thing in life: to find a loving family to take her in or successfully age out of the foster system. She thought she'd found her family until after her eighth birthday, her younger foster brother died under suspicious circumstances-circumstances Noa might have had a part in.

Now at sixteen and with nowhere else to go, Noa Rembrandt is sent to Gardenside County Home for Troubled Youth. With a countdown to her eighteenth birthday, Noa is determined to keep her head down and not cause any trouble.

Trouble instead finds her, in the form of her eccentric roommate and cute boy across the hall who both seem to know more about Noa's background than she does.