Fifteen-year-old Indigo Summer's world finally seems to be going in the right direction: She hooksup with the star linebacker on the high-school football team,gets a date for homecoming and makes the high-school dancesquad all in the same week. But sometimes things are just toogood to be true. After football star Quincy Rawlins abruptlydumps her for a girl who is willing to put out, Indigo's popularityand self-esteem take a nosedive. When her perfect world fallsapart, Indigo turns to the one person who seems to have hishead on straight—her next-door neighbor, sixteen-year-oldMarcus Carter. The problem is, now that Indigo realizes what agreat guy Marcus really is, so does someone else.