Sawyer doesn’t see her brother very often. So when he shows up and says she’s spending her summer with him at his mysterious school, she’s pretty intrigued. Quickly Sawyer realizes that her brother’s school is not just any school, but an academy for troubled kids and brilliant ones- except she isn’t either of those things. Slowly she learns the secrets of the school, while trying to earn her place there, and befriending her edgy room-mate.