Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

When Corey is abandoned at a boarding school, she becomes hell bent on making everyone in the school as miserable as herself. But when she starts acting out, the administrators erase her memory. Only, she doesn't forget. They experimented on her, as well as on the other orphans in the school. With danger on the rise, her petty squabble with dark and dangerous Xander and her growing romance with kind and handsome Dylan hardly come as first priority. Escape is necessary. Are the five children strong enough to overcome those who oppose them to escape, as well as conquer the darkness within themselves?