Makani Young thought that moving from the emerald-and-turquoise Hawai’i to the small town of Osbourne, lost amid Nebraska’s gray-yellow cornfields, would bury the ugly secrets of her past forever. The girl starts life from scratch: she makes friends and even falls for the strange classmate Oliver Larsson, whose life is a series of mysterious rumors and gossip. But when students of Osbourne High are killed one after another, with particular cruelty, Makani’s classmates begin to look to the girl as if the ghosts of the past have come to remind themselves of her. Or maybe the rumors about Olli aren’t rumors at all?..