Dawn is a normal suburban high school senior living in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her father is an expert in legends and myths and is a professor at the nearby college. She is a popular girl with a boring mundane life until a new girl moves into the neighborhood. Grace is shy and looks like she stepped out of the 1940's and makes quite an impression with the kids at school. Dawn decides early on to befriend her even though she will lose her social status and takes a seat at the Nerd Table. Grace tends to be strange and keeps to herself except when around Dawn.After Brandon, the captain of the football team asks Dawn out her life becomes a roller coaster of emotions and things become even more twisted after Grace's brother Max arrives and the two foster a relationship that thrusts her into a dark world where nothing is as it seems.