Lea Lane has always felt caught in the middle of two worlds--that of Hawaii, and that of the Mainland. Her actress mother casts a large shadow, but things begin to turn for Lea in her junior high school year. She somehow makes friends with Will and Whitney West, spending more and more time at the prominent family's guest cottage. She begins to wonder if she might become more than friends with Will, but it is with Whitney that the most surprises come, and a deep friendship unlike anything Lea or Whitney have ever had develops.