A bitter rivalry between two overachieving high school seniors erupts after one of them is named valedictorian on a day that finds them unexpectedly teaming up and falling for each other while competing against their fellow graduates during a farewell tour of Seattle.

Tella's brother Cody is sick and getting worse, so when she finds instructions on how to become a contender in the dangerous Brimstone Bleed race where she can win a cure for him, she jumps at the chance--but there is no guarantee that she will win, or even survive.

When an aspiring reporter, a typecast actress and a guitarist who has been abandoned by his famous father all receive VIP invitations to a Hollywood party organized with sinister intentions against an A-list starlet, the celebrity's subsequent disappearance threatens everything they have worked to achieve.