With a drunk for a mother and a sketchy high school to attend, keeping herself safe had been a challenge for sixteen year old Willow Tearney long before the lawyer arrived with his 'letter'. That same evening, over her objections, Willow found herself in the passenger seat beside her half lit mother heading north to claim the home of her newly deceased grandmother. North, to the religious, conclave town of Preston, Pennsylvania to live in the home of a woman she'd never seen or even known existed before the lawyer and his letter. For years, Willow has out maneuvered the dangerous situations that were a constant part of her troubled world, but as she was about to find out, Preston High, and Preston, Pennsylvania wasn't a place she could safely navigate without going beyond the edge.