Fourteen-year-old Tara McCoy has spent her entire life training for the Olympics and expects to win a medal on the balance beam. Instead, she slips and hits her head. Although devastated and in tremendous pain, she goes on to get a perfect score on the parallel bars, bringing her team into first place. But after accepting a gold medal with her team, she collapses. Tara lies in a coma for ten years. When she awakens, she is a 14-year-old girl in a 24-year-old body and has lost her career, her parents, and ten years of her life. Her only real comfort is Dr. Chad Brumfield, the young neurologist who has overseen her care for ten years. Essentially still a child and afraid of living alone, Tara goes to stay with Dr. Chad. Over the next few months, the rapid physical changes that good nutrition and exercise bring about get tangled up with her emotions, and both Tara and Chad have to deal with feelings that surprise and disturb them.