Willow Barke is thirteen - and psychic. She lives in foster care in a recently condemned inner city flophouse. Willow is super-smart and tomboy beautiful, though she's sometimes reclusive by nature, a product of her bad experiences with unsuitable foster parents over the years.
When we meet Willow she's feisty, willful and eager to prove herself to her peers and mentors.
The sudden suspicious death of her favorite magazine editor, Leo Forrester, inspires Willow to uncover the truth about Leo – and ultimately the mystery surrounding her own birth...