16 year old Juliet has been on her own for 11 months. Then she messes up. That slip up has the courts desiding she should be shipped off to Blackwood Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts. Across the entire country. As she tries to escape her problems more grow after she was assigned a project for history class. She meets new people some who become her new family and some who she cant stand including a boy who she is forced to be around.