Paislee Adler has always had only one friend, Tessa Jones. After a tragic accident at a party gone wrong, Paislee is left alone in a world without Tessa. Paislee doesn't escape the accident unscathed however, she's lost both of her hands. A mysterious woman gives Paislee a pair of fully functioning prothstetics that have some supernatural side effects nicknamed Abnormalities. Paislee must leave her home to travel to the mystery woman's research labs where she will train with other young adults that have experienced traumas such as hers. She doesn't know what to think or what to feel anymore, but when Paisley learns she'll be living with the boy who invited her and Tessa to the party that destroyed her life, she learns that not everything she thought she knew about the accident and her injuries are true.