Leia Harvey is just a normal girl looking forward to high school graduation. Her boring, ordinary life revolves around classes, hanging out with friends, pointless homework, and an unremarkable family life. In the final listless months of her senior year, blissfully counting the days until she can leave her beloved/hated frigid Fairbanks behind, Leia abruptly discovers the unsettling truth behind classmate Evan’s off-putting behavior—he’s actually an alien from a dead planet who lives in hiding from his own kind. When Evan reveals that Leia herself is half alien, the shocking discovery binds them together in a profound, dramatic way, upending her “normal” life and all her plans for the future. Leia finally makes peace with the two divergent sides of her nature, only to find herself forced to choose between reason and emotion in order to save everyone she loves. And she discovers she’s capable of anything, even surrendering her very humanity…