In the sleepy and isolated village of Inklesham lives 15-year-old Jenna Adams. Life is quiet for Jenna: She fills her diary and her days with midnight rainstorms, working at the local pizza shop and thoughts about her school friends - and enemies.
The arrival of the new boy in the village throws Jenna's life into a spin. Scott Thomas is like no one she's ever met, a strange and somehow haunted young boy.
For a while, love for the two of them is simple and easy. Then things to start going wrong. Why does Scott lie to Jenna about where he's been and who he's been with? What's the secret that he and the brother of Jenna's best friend seem determined to keep?
A tragic event threatens to overwhelm Jenna, and her life starts to spiral out of control, gradually slipping through her fingers and away...