Samantha Symanski's mother told her they'd be safer when she dragged them from the life they knew in the Baltimore/Washington metro area to a small town in the center of Wisconsin. But when her new boyfriend is attacked and things start to go bump in the night, she wonders if it is the only lie her mother told her. Samantha suddenly finds herself fighting forces she cannot see, as well as an attraction to the school's outcast, Levi Mauer, who has secrets of his own.