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You can’t expect to go unnoticed when the new coffee shop in town is named after the new girl and run by her mother. For high school senior Lori, pronounced Lor-ay by her French mother, this is all she wants, to finish up the last few months before graduation, flying under the radar.

For 15-year-old Samantha it’s a struggle of epic proportions. Torn by the need for answers, she is tortured by her curiosity of a cottage, nestled deep in the woods of her family’s property. What proves to be home to far more than just unanswered questions, her father repeatedly warns her that the cottage is off-limits and that anything pertaining to the dwelling would not be discussed.

Would you pass up the opportunity to touch the tree from which the first stake ever used on a vampire originated from? Yeah, neither would high schooler and lover-of-all-things vampire, Raven; who, on Halloween, plans on investigating the rumor that this tree exists in the next county. Raven isn’t the normal teenager, which tends to seclude her from fitting in, and she can’t quite pinpoint what makes her so different. The only time she feels like herself is on Halloween, when she morphs from her normal wallflower self, transforming into this outgoing girl.

For Natalie, Lake Huron is more than just one of the Great Lakes. For this seemingly average teenager of Native American descent, Lake Huron holds the secret to the unspoken truths of her childhood; the truths that reveal that she is anything but average; the truths behind her tribal swan name and ultimately, the key to her destiny.