Nineteen-year-old Avalon Brookes has spent her entire life trying to be perfect: the perfect daughter, the perfect granddaughter, the perfect student, the perfect – well, everything. She’s fought her entire life to fit into the quintessential world around her and, so far, she’s done okay. One night, however, during a storm on her way to visit her grandmother, Avalon runs off the side of the road. While trying to find her way back to the highway, she gets attacked by a wild animal. She is saved by a mysterious man named Fenrik, who teachers her things about the world and herself that she never knew before.

Nothing in life, though, is ever quite so easy. Soon Avalon must continue to her grandmother, who is sick and most likely dying. Not long into her visit, she begins to learn that the people in her life that she thought she knew and trusted were not who they claimed, or appeared, to be. She quickly finds herself within a web of lies and deceit, and learns something about the death of Fenrik’s family that threatens to tear her world apart.

When it matters most, can Avalon choose between her family and the man she loves? Is she the key to mending the wounds of those around her and of tearing down the walls of hatred and prejudice that are so deeply-rooted in this sleepy little town? Or will their intolerance be their downfall?