Karis Reed is grounded - no mobile phone, no computer and no music - after her mother finds out about her visit to a boy's house. Karis doesn't get it, nothing happened. But her minister mother Janice sees things differently, as she has no intention of allowing Karis to repeat the mistake she made by getting pregnant at 16. Against her better judgment, Karis takes part in a plan to keep her social life beneath her mother's radar. Enter a self-proclaimed bad boy, a trifling potential stepmother, a deployed soldier and trouble with her best friends.