In the late summer of 1986, Winona Swan finds herself on the run with only her cat, a backpack and an old rucksack to her name. She has fled a dysfunctional life in Tucson with her flighty mother and controlling stepfather, and now hopes to start anew with her father in the tiny town of Forks, Washington. She has little memory of the former logging community nestled among the misty rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula, but it has to be an improvement from Phoenix, right? Being a practical, guarded individual, Nona is intent on powering through the rest of high school as quickly as possible with her head down, and assumes she can handle whatever the coming years throw at her. But she soon finds that there's a lot more to the strange fogbound town and some of its residents than she could have ever imagined...