Hayley Kincaid won’t allow herself to remember the happy times in her life, and why should she? After five years on the road with her trucker father, Andy, the two are finally staying put in her grandmother’s old house in upstate New York. Serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have left her father with nightmares of gunfire and roadside bombs. He uses alcohol and drugs as a means of coping. Throughout the book, the reader gets to see the world through Andy’s eyes. Hayley is a teenager who is forced to be both a kid and a parent. She has good times and bad, plus she has Finn. As the two become closer, their memories have a way of catching up with them and they start to cut away at Hayley’s protective bubble like a knife.