Isabel Preston spent her teenage years with a mother who struggled to pay the bills in their suburban home as she covered up the whereabouts of Isabel's absent father. Fuelled by anger, frustration and resentment, Isabel refused to attend college and spent her time running the streets with crime lord Brice Tripson. Now, after seven years of being someone else's toy, Isabel wonders whether she should give up her gold-digging life and find true love.