Shaye Rivers is far from your average teenage girl, in fact she's so far from it she's barely even human! Shaye is unique and rare which means sometimes she feels she has to hide parts of herself even though she attends a boarding school surrounded by students that are "gifted". Phoenix Winters doesn't let anyone get close to him, why should he when everyone leaves eventually anyway? So when he locks eyes with Shaye and feels himself instantly drawn to this beautiful creature before him he doesn't know what to do and as much as Shaye wants to deny it the connection between them is too strong for her to defy. Follow these two students and there friends as they not only tackle normal human day to day problems but also have to work together to protect themselves and each other from those wanting to use their abilities and who they are against them.