Royalwood School is where the future owners of the world attend. A place of wealth, excess, excellence and knowledge, where only the strongest survive. A sudden and shocking string of suicides shake the school's sense of tranquility, attracting the attention of Teddy Santoyo, the new kid in Royalwood, perpetually chasing answers to questions nobody else seems to ask. Teddy believes there might be more to these tragedies, but when his concerns go unheard, he takes matters into his own hands. In the neighbouring town of Rye, the sudden murder of three people inside a convenience store leaves local police baffled. Rania Franklin, a pregnant reporter on the hunt for her first big scoop, takes a special interest in the investigation. Digging deeper into the mysterious murders, Rania follows the trail back to the most unexpected of places: Royalwood School.

Joan Chatwin swore she would never return to Alpine, Texas. But 2 years after college, the 24-year-old has fallen down on her luck and found herself forced to move back home to the remote town in the middle of nowhere to help her family out after her mother unexpectedly passes away. But she is itching to get them situated and get the hell out of there as soon as she possibly can. That is, until she rekindles a friendship that she tried too hard to forget about with her father's apprentice, Henry Waters. He is determined to make her fall back in love with the town, but will she also fall back in love with someone she tried to forget?