Elizabeth Gallo is in her penultimate year at Delaware High School in Milford, a small town outside New York. Ambitious, clever but introverted, Beth seems set to follow a determined path, encouraged by her liberal and loving parents. But then three strangers arrive; and with their arrival, the little town and its inhabitants begin to change. Who is the handsome Derick and what do he and his sister, Cass, and her boyfriend, Joseph, know? Why is Beth so drawn to these three and they to her? What dark secrets are being kept within the Gallo family? Is it possible for love to overcome the past? Follow Beth and her friends along on this whiplash ride of star-crossed love, magic and the burdens of duty and the intricate bonds of fate.