Styve a 10th grade boy and his sister Vydle a 9th grader are normally very close and each others only friends. Their abusive father is forced to be a host family for an exchange student. How will Styve react to the new person? Will he be able to hide his problems and stay the quiet, lonely kid or will he make a surprising new friend? Alastor has a few secrets of his own that might make things in America harder for him. Will he be able to help Styve and Vydle while still hiding his own problems? Vydle is usually very kind and excepting but how will she react when her brother slowly becomes more distant because of her and Alastors friendship? This takes place in the same universe as Shadows of the Damaged and the book my friend is writing Profoundly Blue.