Louisa Evanston is the daughter of a foreign dignitary who has spent the majority of her life moving from place to place until one day when her parents send her off to Irvine College, a private school in Birchfield, Maine, where she befriends and grows close to four other students, Charlotte McAlister, Benjamin Flockhart, Vivian Ortiz and Noah Woods. When something sinister happens on campus, the fates of these five friends, all youths destined for bright futures, becomes uncertain.