Kathryn Duncan is fifteen, starting her last year of secondary school, and her life has always been...normal. Well, not counting the fact that her mother disappeared when she was a baby, and her father and aunt died when she was barely 7 years old. Aside from that...normal. Until she faces her mirror image in a nightmare. After that day, her "normal" life turns upside down, propelled by a new arrival in her small town. A new boy, with whom Kathryn find she shares a strange sense of kinship, and a mysterious and discriminate lightning storm. After the storm, Kathryn is forced to reconsider everything she's ever known, including her sleepy hometown and its unusual history. Along with a group of unlikely friends, Kathryn learns more than she ever bargained for.