Rupert was done with his mothers ill advised plans for him. He wanted to live his life, regardless of no sure path, and to do that, he packs up with the ruse that he is just visiting his father overseas for the week. His father lives in a quiet costal town in Oregon, and that was far enough away from his pushy mother in London to give him peace of mind. He’d avoided her college plans for him by touring Europe for a year, but then she’d started throwing debutants at him from every angle. If she couldn’t get him into the college she wanted, she’d be more than happy to make him settle down with the girl of her choice. So to escape the nightmare of being stuck to some random girl, he heads to Portara, and meets a young woman that has him rethinking all the plans he’d never made.

Falling in love is hard to do when no one will even look at you, and those that do hurry to look away. Andrea is a seventeen year old girl who has always wished for a sense of belonging, but being only half native to her tribe sets her apart from everyone else. And the other townspeople of Wapatau seem to avoid her just as easily. But life is always easier with a good friend. Her best (and only) friend Kaida has always been her moral support, and Kaida’s older brother Konai has always been there to tear her back down. With only days left in school, and the Spring Equinox festival just around the corner, Andrea looks at her life like a glass half empty. Until a random series of events, and a dark and stormy night, change her life forever.