17 year old Dylan has a brother who is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Despite her efforts to shelter him, he goes missing in a dangerous part of Los Angeles. In the traumas of trying to find him, she begins to see things--colors and lights mostly, along with some people who show up at the worst of times with a taste for trouble. She's sure they're hallucinations. No one else can see them, and since schizophrenia runs in families, the sanest explanation she can get her head around is that she's losing her mind.
Though he'd been mostly a loner, Dylan learns her brother was somehow friends with Logan Greene, a popular high school surfer. The two of them end up joining forces to search for him. It's far from a first date; the circumstances are harsh--being homeless with a mental illness is about as harsh as life gets. And Logan can't seem to soften her sharp edges because it turns out she believes he's mostly to blame.
Their pursuit takes them across the country, and Dylan must make some awful choices along the way. Any hope of a happy ending looks impossible; so does any chance of romance--she's sabotaging it at every turn. As she closes in on her brother in the middle of the biggest storm in Texas history, she risks everything to save him, but instead must face the unthinkable.
There in the broken remains, she awakens to the rightness of her heart, as revealed by those who've cradled her choices along the way.