Elise is a normal seventeen-year-old girl, until the day she wakes up in a desert park with no idea who she is. After that bizarre event, Elise experiences unexpected flashes of insight into the lives of people she's never met before, strangers frighten her with warnings about the approaching Shadows, and she finds herself torn between two handsome but very different young men, charming bad boy Abe and the mysterious Harlin who's new to town. Who is Elise, really?