bully and victim tormenter and tormented villain and hero ellie mccallum was a bully no connection to anyone or anything a sad and lonely existence for a young woman who had come to expect nothing more for herself her only happiness coming from making others miserable particularly freaky flynn flynn hendrick lived a life completely disconnected even as he struggled to become something more than that boy with aspergers he was taunted and teased bearing the brunt of systematic and calculated cruelty ultimately culminating in a catastrophic turn of events that brought ellie and flynns worlds crashing downbut then flynn and ellie grew up and moved onuntil years later when their paths unexpectedly cross again and the bully and the freak are face to face once morewhen labels come to define you finding yourself feels impossible particularly for two people disconnected from the world who inexplicably find a connection in each other and out of the wreckage of their tragic beginnings an unlikely love story unfoldsbut a painful past doesnt always want to let go and old wounds are never truly healedand sometimes the further you try to run from yourself the closer you come to who you really are