Jenna has always liked everything in her life to be just-so, with each day coordinated into schedules and neat, perfect to-do lists. She’s got a five year plan for her future, and a ten year plan, and she’s going to work her fingers to the bone in her last year at college to make sure she can bring them to fruition.
Until, that is, Jenna finds out the night before she’s due to go back to college after summer that her father, who has been staying with a friend while he and Jenna’s mother work through some things, has decided to make the separation permanent and has asked for a divorce — which makes zero sense when they still clearly love one another. And from there, everything starts to fall apart: her parents can’t afford to help pay for university tuition anymore, which throws a big spanner in the works for her education plan; her best friend of fifteen years, Eddie, has decided he’s in love with her, which would be fine if he hadn’t also become obsessed with using the stars to tell his destiny; her twin sisters, Alana and Ciara, and still finding ways to overshadow everything she does, even when they’re out of State at university, and to top it off it’s been nearly seven months now since her grandfather passed away, which means it’s been nearly seven months since her grandmother, Gamma, has spoken to anyone.
With everything in Jenna’s life unravelling at the seams, she is forced to put her plans on hold while she fights to keep her friendship intact, to stop Eddie’s star theory from consuming him, to convince her parents that they still belong together, to show her Gamma that life is still worth living even without your soulmate, and to stop her family from shattering irreparably.
But Jenna soon finds that it’s much harder to try and control other people’s lives, even the ones of those you love, and that sometimes you need to fix yourself before you can fix anyone else.