What happens to a quiet boy when he takes a single step out of his comfort zone and never can get back? Seventh-grader Josiah Engel wakes one night to find his hometown burning to the ground. In his family's escape, his role, as usual, is that of onlooker. That ends when the new girl in town drafts him to prove that her uncle wasn't the man who started the fire, as everyone says. His life-changing encounter with telepathic Beatrice Loriston leads to threats, danger, pursuit and the discovery of new gifts.