Althea, not wanting the summer to end and her mother to send her to boarding school an ocean away, develops the typical aggravated attitude of a 16-year-old girl. Then again, it isn’t the transfer of schools or homes, but the idea of tolerating both her new step-mom and brother. But after a week of settling in, her nerves do quite the opposite. For her new family isn’t quite who she imagined. And soon enough, to Althea’s own horror, she discovers the dark secrets of her stepbrother as he drags her deep into the labyrinth of his true identity. For most appear the way in which they wish to, not as they truly are.