When her father is called home on business from their summer vacation, fourteen-year-old Nikki is forced to cope with adult-sized problems: her young new stepmother is traumatized by childhood memories, while Nikki feels she is being stalked on her new friend Julian's property.
Fourteen-year-old Nikki has trouble accepting her new stepmother Crystal, and the problem grows worse when they visit the northern California house where Crystal lived as a child and experienced some horrible event that she is trying to keep secret.