Keira Lynn Walker. Her name says it all. She's rich, beautiful, her father is famous and gets what she wants. Perfect right? Well, not really. Her mother was murdered when she was still a baby and everybody in her family starts to hate her. So in order to get rid of her pretty face, her father sends her to a school for the "gifted" where everyone is just as special as she is. Once she is place in the Winter House; one of the four houses at her school. One night Keira meets Alec who is also known as the trouble kid. They both get into an arguement about how asocial Keira is; it takes a bad turn, Keira accidentaly touches Alec's hand and everything seems to just fall apart. Alec promises that he's not going to say anything as long as she does what he says...