Ella is sixteen years old and has always lived with her mom. But now she has to move in with her dad who has remarried to an evil lady and her two daughters. But they've found out a secret about Ella. A secret she doesn't want anyone to know. So now she has to do everything her stepmother tells her to do or she will tell everybody. But Ella has secretly told her best friend from her old home. When she is introduced to her friend's rich cousin during an IM chat with her, Ella starts to befriend the man her cousins are trying to win without knowing it. But when she finally does meet him and has to go to a dance to tell him the truth of who she really is, things get heated and Ella's secret comes out. Can the man that Ella has learned to love try to rescue her before its too late?