"Go straight home after school." "Don't leave the house after five." "Never let anyone inside."
Since age twelve, Lorelai Jade has lived by these rules and many others. She's never questioned them once. She's too afraid to. She knows that if one wrong move is made, she'll be taken away from her mother. Lorey is all her mom's got now that her dad's out of the picture, and she knows being taken away would destroy her. It would destroy Lorey, too. But when she bumps into Reed Emrys at school, and she discovers that they have the same secret, Lorey has to either stay and be caught by the police in Cranbury, NJ, or leave the country without telling anyone.