Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. Shea�TMll be working in her familya�TMs ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend and her former best friend, King, who is back in
their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father a�" a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life a�" Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him, no matter how much he insists. While Kinga�TMs friendship makes Lou feel safer and warmer than she would have thought possible, when her familya�TMs business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she cana�TMt ignore her father forever.