In a desperate attempt to protect her family's fortune from her aunt after a plane wreck claims the lives of her parents, Miley Learson runs off to buy time until her eighteenth birthday. On her mission, she meets Rachel, a hard-core leader of a band of runaways, and together they decide to cross the country in a race against the seasons in the land of lost and found. Where life lies death, love lays secrets, and although she thought she had a plan set in stone, she soon discovers the true meaning of love, life, and acceptance.