Addison Snow is a typical teenager. She has a family who loves her, friends who make her laugh, and she's looking forward to graduating from high school and going to college so she can pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Her world is shattered when her mother, who was also Addison's best friend, unexpectedly dies.    Death changes everyone..    To ease the pain, Addison and her father chose different paths. She decides to end her grief once and for all, and he drowns out his sadness with alcohol. How to learn to live again when the most important person in your life has died?    Addison is picking up the pieces of her life. Instead of becoming the carefree teenager she once was, she took on her father's responsibilities. She has no time to grieve, no time to emotion and no time to be happy... Until Sander Reinhardt appears.    Just one little handwritten note on a napkin brings her back to life and helps her realize that perhaps there is more to life than pain.    But is it really that simple? Can she really trust the man who made her feel alive for the first time this year?