Sixteen-year-old Kate Quinn has had a really tough year. After her mother passed away, The New York Times broke a story that Kate is the illegitimate daughter of Republican senator Mark Cooper. And he’s running for president. And they want Kate on the campaign.

Joining the campaign, and the family she never knew she had, means figuring out her role in both. Sticking to the script seems safe at first, until she meets rebellious Andy, who just happens to be the incumbent president’s son. When Kate’s best friend’s family is threatened with deportation, Kate has to figure out if she can trust her new family, whose politics take a hard line against illegal immigration, or Andy, whose motives may be questionable but whose father can help her friends. She’s forced to figure out what she really wants, and how to get it, especially when she’s on the wrong side of right.