Jo Harvelle was supposed to be a normal girl. Blonde, smart, pretty, and funny, her mom always said she had so much potential. But when she is bullied out of college for being "the freak with the knives", she lands back at home in Nebraska. She resigned herself to the trailer-trash life, knowing that she could never outrun her past. But that all changes when two brothers show up with a mysterious job to do, and a need for someone smart like her.