The morning pain. It's when you first wake up to a feeling of emptiness and hopelessness inside you. Callie Marlette is your average, shy, sixteen year old girl who dreams of breaking out of her shell. Her life was perfectly normal until three months ago, her parents went missing without a trace, leaving Callie with anxiety and fear of death. Now living with her Aunt Sylvia and Uncle Jerry, Callie's life becomes worse when she realizes she's living with her cousin, Isabel. Isabel Moreaux looks like a girl that came out of a Victoria's Secret Catalog and rules the school with an iron fist. Isabel hates Callie with a passion and wouldn't mind seeing her gone. Her life takes yet another twist when students at her new school, East Point Academy, are being targeted for murder. It only takes a couple death threats to realize that she's next on the list. Petrified and alone, she seeks help from a group of teens who all have secrets of their own. Will her new friends help her to solve this case? Can Callie ever find her parents? Or will she die trying?