


Sam’s real father, Garrett, comes into town - he is actually sleeping with Mason’s mother. They think they’re doing a good job of hiding their relationship, but it turns out, they’re not.

Sam and Mason give in to their feelings and start sleeping together. But the more she does, the more they grow. Realizing that would really give people something to talk about, Sam tries to suppress her feelings. She’s developed feelings for Mason, her would-be brother. That doesn’t matter anyway, because Sam isn’t really interested in Adam. One of the football stars, Adam wants to date her, but Sam’s new friend, the sweet and adorable Becky has had a lifelong crush on him. In the meantime, Sam still has to deal with being the centre of gossip at her school. They make sure she’s not bothered at school and they keep Sam’s mother off her back, even going so far as to force a bottle of alcohol down her throat just to keep her quiet when she starts drunkenly shouting at Sam one night. When she sees them torch a car belonging to a rival school’s football team member and keeps quiet about it, she earns their trust - and their protection. In the Kade brothers, she finds unexpected allies. Sam lashes out - she physically fights with her mother, torches her non-biological father’s car and goes running for hours on end. Her mother wants to keep the man she knew to be her father away from her and worse still, Sam’s mother has never told her real father about her. She finds out her boyfriend cheated on her with one of her best friends, while her other best friend knew about it for two years. Most girls would be thrilled at the idea of moving into the Kade Mansion, but not Sam - she’s doing all she can to stay sane, expounded by a mother who seems to only look out for her own interests and a father who actually turns out to not be her biological dad.ĭrama keeps coming into Sam’s life.

Suddenly Sam has a reason to care what people think about her family life, especially since her mother announces her new beau is the rich father of Mason and Logan Kade, two of the coolest boys in town. But when she gets home from a party one night to find her mother packing up all her things, telling Sam she’s leaving her father and they’re moving in with her new lover, her life turns upside down. Samantha Strattan has become used to playing sober driver for her two best friends, Lydia and Jessica, as they hop from party to party, looking to see and be seen.
