Tammy Pendleton thinks she's broken beyond repair. Sheltered by her parents, a victim of sexual abuse, she wants to escape but doesn't know how. Until her cousin Clara leads her away from the Pendleton estate, and into Clearwater. Orion Bennett is a motor-head who works at Pete's Service Station. At nineteen, he is battling depression. But he's also suffering with trigeminal neuralgia--the suicide disease--and he's desperate to escape the pain...