Claire never thought that she would ever find anywhere to fit into in this world. She doesn't look anything like her parents. She has a strange accent and finally, last but not least, she can do some pretty freaky things like boil water and heal people. Once Claire meets a strange boy named Olan her world turns upside down. Could this Olan boy know the truth about what she is and where she came from?

When Nerissa Waterstone was four, she was in a life changing event. She became known as the Hudson Miracle Child because she spent four minutes underwater before she surfaced. This drowning experience still has an effect on her in the form of she's completely terrified of any sort of water. Constantly tormented by her peers, she is forced to see a shrink. She meets his son and it's an instant attraction, even though he looks like a popular kid and she's stuck being the nobody. It is on her first date with him that disaster strikes, forcing her back to where it all began; Huson, Hawaii. How will she react once she gets back to Hawaii? How will the people treat her? Little does she know that she has much bigger fish to fry. Little does she know that a war is beginning to rage over her.

Allyson Elizabeth Cruesoe has always lived a perfectly normal life. She has a mom, a dad, and everything that she could ever wish for in life. Her life is completely turned around when her perfectly healthy father dies from heart attack and a mysterious man brings her mother's mysterious past to light; causing Ally's life to do a total 360. Could the man be something other than human? Could Ally be exactly like him? Darkness, shadows, death, grief, oh my!