Jade has always felt secure and loved - by her doting parents and her best friend, Jack, who everyone assumes she'll marry one day. But things start to go wrong when Jade feels that her parents and Jack are keeping secrets from her. The secrets turn out to be painful ones - her dad is not her real father, and Jack cannot love her as more than a friend because he's gay - but the strength of their relationships help them all to come through these revelations and reach a happy, life-affirming ending.