The first book in its series, Define the Great Line's SUMMIT introduces both characters at high speed through their youth and glimpses of the future that awaits them. This duality of negative and positive influences that is born between them becomes a foundation for inseparable experience. Courtney sits on the sultry, simmering beaches of Hawaii as a junior in her third year of college at University of Hawaii at Hilo, while Vanessa shakes in the dirty, cold streets of Millfield awaiting her boyfriend's return from a drug deal. Courtney's attempts to rekindle her distant and dysfunctional relationships between friends and family is the reason for her return back home, only finding the path to destruction has been paved in her absence. She ventures into her last year of college while Vanessa walks along the borders of war with her boyfriend, police, gangsters, family, friends, and herself.