Ever since the incident Rory Joyce's family knows as "It," life has been a bit skewed. There's all that business about adding letters in math class, plus her new habit of having mysterious seizure-slash-visions (usually in public for maximum humiliation potential). All that's missing are some private visits from beings who claim to be sent from Elsewhere. It's just a sampling from the buffet of the bizarre that Rory's life has suddenly become-as if junior high weren't weird enough. In Whitestone, Rory gets her first glimpse into a strange new world-beyond family loss, public school fiascos, homeschooling neighbors and those suspiciously nice kids from the youth group-and discovers that the real battles are the ones you don't even see. Well, the ones MOST people don't even see. It might not be a bad time to get her hands on a sword...