Samantha Miller has always felt like an alien in her own home, never looking or acting like the people around her. With a childhood plagued by loss and loneliness, Sam has always felt one misstep away from falling into a black abyss. For years, the darkness in her has been a stark contrast to her golden-boy neighbor, Ryan Hartley. His suave charm and his relationship with her parents have always grated her nerves and fed into her darkness.

Sam presents an impenetrable wall of ice to the world that Ryan has spent years trying to crack. For Sam, Ryan's existence is a constant reminder of everything she tries and fails to be. For Ryan, Sam's existence is a reminder that the world is so much more beautiful than the violent home he lives in.

When the unthinkable happens once again, Sam is left to pick up the pieces, but a shocking revelation sends her spiraling further. When Ryan sees just how close to the edge Sam truly is, he refuses to let her face the journey ahead alone. With the help of Ryan, Sam embarks on a mission to find out the truth about her past and discover who she really is.

Though answers await them, dangers far greater than they've ever faced do, too. In the presence of the reaper himself, Sam must choose whether to fight to live or to fall into the dark abyss that has called to her for so long.