Seventeen year old Mia Dawney was an ordinary girl who had lost her parents and had moved to Maine and into the Castle High boarding school. On the night of her birthday, Mia senses that something is off. When she goes off to look for her friends she runs into a stranger that turns her world upside down. Months later, Mia is with a group of people that had gone into hiding. Something is out there and Mia knows that "they" are not human. But Mia is experiencing vivid dreams and other odd side effects that she shrugs off. Until the day she goes on a raid and gets caught by "them", she is left behind by her group to fend for herself. Who are they? Why do they want Mia?