Fifteen-year-old Hester’s reeling from the worst summer of her life. Her mother’s firming up a relationship with Father Dan (pastor and wife-stealer extraordinaire), her best friend wants more from her than just friendship, and—worst of all—her family lost the lawsuit they’d brought against the Havemeyer Pharmaceutical Company for providing Hester’s father with the drugs that eventually killed him.

And the worst is yet to come. The new high school principal Rick Shane is planning to reopen Havemeyer. And he’s got all kinds of great things planned for the school’s social outcasts. When Hester’s two best friends Kyle and Emily are caught up in Shane’s seductive spell, it’s up to her to free them. Before Shane—and the “miracle drug” he’s concocted—costs them their lives.