Thirteen-year-old Kaitlyn Jane Ellis is decidedly average: the middle of five sisters, she has lived her entire life in a tumble-down shack in the middle of a town only a few miles in size and her entire life has been as unremarkable as Kate herself. But when Kate's mother appears after being missing since Kate was a young child, the seemingly average middle child is suddenly caught between two worlds, as some may say...betwixt.