"I've been labeled as the 'new girl' for the past week now. Adam, Bree, and Chase don't know that I've been watching them and I know their dirty, little secret. They don't know I'm just like them."

Shaylee McAllister is a rich, big-city teenager whose life is turned upside-down after a car accident kills her mother and handicaps her dad. She is forced to move to Tulsa, Oklahoma to live with her struggling alcoholic uncle. Shaylee soon finds herself torn between the Socs and greasers, trying to find where she truly belongs, and who she belongs with.