Harper Laukweed and her mother and father Michael and Myra Laukweed and there family friends the Bakers are not who they seem, in a futuristic world The United States have crumbled to form the remains as the Upper United Nations now including what we know now as South America Harper lives in Liverpool County a mix of old Europe and Asia there home has been threatened and the Laukweed's and Baker's have been sent to a boarding school in Dermraft Upper United Nations secretary, to find and kill anyone who is in the plot to destroy her home.