Zander Dibble, otherwise known as 'black boots', the new boy. When he saunters through the corridors of Halia's high school, she notices something divergent about him instantly. It isn't the way he dresses in all black or his twinkling blue eyes, but a crumpled map, with numbers 1 - 13, sticking out from within his dusty, leather tome. The very same map she saw in her dream the night before. But how could she dream of a map before she's ever seen it? Where do those thirteen steps lead? And, what does a boy she's never seen before have to do with it?