Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.

Sixteen-year old identical twin daughters of a district-court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raenne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.