Danielle "Danni" Martin is the ultimate 14-year-old tomboy whose lifelong dream is to become a firefighter. She is upset when she is forced to move from her childhood home in Florida across the street from a firehouse to a remote farmhouse in rural Ohio, until she meets her new neighbor, Alex, a handsome 17-year-old cadet firefighter. Together, Danni and Alex face issues of life and death as well as matters of the heart.