"I didn't think I believed in fate, but now I was standing in the black with kismet, realizing I was always meant to know the dark truth." Catherine Alaska just moved halfway across the country and longs for a life filled with academia and knowledge. But when she meets a myriad of strange characters within her first week of starting her junior year at college, she finds herself uncovering the supernatural dangers that surround her. She discovers mythical secrets and dark realities as she forms relationships with Rory Cadogan, a handsome senior with a mysteriously calming presence, and Holland Baciu, who she finds both frightening and absolutely compelling. Her understanding of what it means to be human is shifted, and along the way, Cath begins to see the ways that humanity and goodness can fight to exist in something dark.