Chance and Jeremy Applewhite are small town brothers who love dancing but choose different lifestyles after high school, Jeremy elects fame and fortune in New York City and Chance chooses to stay in his hometown.

The plot unfolds when Jeremy returns home after seventeen years to discover his grandmother has died.

Some mature topics are touched on - homosexuality, early marriage proposals, out of wedlock sex, and out of wedlock pregnancy, but they are treated in such an honest and sensitive way young adults will appreciate the fact that an author deems them mature enough to learn about such things.

Family secrets are revealed, but they are secrets that happen in nearly all families, so the secrets will be readily accepted as realistic to young readers.

The novel is predictable and in some instances unrealistic (all the dancers are just a little too good), but we must remember the audience for this novel is readers just prior to or entering their teens; and this will prove to be no problem to them.