They moved to California for a reason 16 year old Shakespeare is not sure of, probably because the people in there old town were complaining. Complaining about the Avidale family and there boy, Shakespeare who may just be a killer. When he moved, with a new life, new friends, new everything you would think he would be happy. But nothings new here, theirs secrets his family aren't telling him and something happened to Speare before his new life. And he's scared that the past will either save or burn his family, to ashes