Twelve year old Lillith dwells within a house where fear is commonplace and the dead linger. A house where the things that go bump in the night once had names. It was them, the very reason for her existence. She was predestined to guard them while they lingered and to carry, on her small shoulders, their sins. Then one day, her destiny fulfilled, she would join the others to linger. Everyone is destined for something, but not everyone can linger.

Lillith has been living her life in exile for the past year, hiding from enemies she didn't know existed. However, her life is about to change as she finds herself welcomed into a new family. All her wishes could be granted if she accepts her bizarre circumstances and pretends to believe in things she knows to be untrue. Among these beautiful and uniquely talented siblings she may have found a home, but even the most beautiful flowers, with deceptively delicate petals and the sweetest perfumes, can harbor the wickedest thorns. She might just discover that the enemies she has been hiding from...