A fun, easy read for lovers of the paranormal. At the start of high school, Grace James is forced to move to her parents' hometown after she invades the mind of an unsuspecting cashier in their very normal city of Chicago. Shady Woods is a place for "above-normals" to co-exist peacefully, a sort of in-between living wild and normal for the vampires, werewolves, sirens, and dendrites. As Grace grapples with accepting her new home and all its sometimes vomit-inducing quirks, buildings start to burn. Was that cashier maybe not so unsuspecting? Did Grace bring the threat with her? Or are there even deeper secrets to discover in the paranormal northwoods?