Jayne's life has never been normal. But does normal even exists? At the age of five, her twin sister was kidnapped by 'the men in black' as she calls them. Search parties and even private investigations were held, but there was never any clue to who took her or where she went. Jayne spent a year being bedridden because of an incident where she had a bad injury and was out in the snow for hours before anyone found her. So she has lived most of her life in America since her Mother didn't want to live in Australia any more.
Jayne has been kept inside, kept away from children her age and home schooled by her mother. She has one friend, Ruby-May, who comes to visit occasionally but other than that, she is alone.
Sleeping is her worst nightmare, nightmares are like a door to the outside world, and also her sister; Maria. Her dreams seem so real that she never wants to sleep, because when something bad happens in them, she knows that it has happened in real life.
Everything is about to change, she is being sent back to Australia, to a small public school. She will meet new people, discover new things, and she will have to fend for herself in the real world outside of her beloved home in America.
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.