An old-school internet cautionary story. At 14, Katie Tarbox is your typical misunderstood teen. She has few close friends and the occasional angry disagreement with her parents. When her college-age sister introduces her to online chat rooms, it opens up a whole new world to Katie and it's there she meets Mark. After a few online chats, the begin talking on the phone. Katie feels a connection with Mark. He empathizes with her and listens to her like no one in her life ever has before. When he suggests they meet in Texas when she has a swim meet there, Katie is excited and nervous. She meets him at his hotel room and finds that the man she thought was 21 is actually 41. He makes sexual advances and touches her but hotel security and the police intervene before anything further can happen. The rest of the book is about Mark's arrest and trial and Katie's mixed feelings about still loving a man who did her harm.