Ashlie is a quiet, sarcastic, and observant seventeen year old girl. While her mother lies in a hospital bed awaiting deaths aproach, Ashlie is shipped off to a small town surrounded in forest known as AshGrove. She's sent to live with the only known relatives she has, an aunt and cousin she never knew about. She's forced to attend a school she's never been to, forced to apply to the strange rules of her aunt Bennda and get along with her estranged cousin Bieanca. She finds that she remembers things that have happened in this town but she doesn't remember coming here before. People in this town are cold towards her besides one in particular that goes by the name of Kade Mathews... Something's off about him and everyone else, But what?