Abbie Sherwood has a pretty okay life besides the fact that she doesn’t have parents. They died on a plane crash when she was fifteen. There is one perk to being her though; she travels the world with her Uncle Peter or Pete on a sailboat. When one horrible storm sinks their boat and takes the life of her dear Uncle she finds herself stranded in the middle of the ocean for days. When she finally arrives on a small island off the west coast of South America, she doesn’t know what to do, until she sees a house, or more like a mansion. Unknowingly the five boys that live in that mansion will change her life forever.