Todd is different, and the other students realise it. After a confrontation with some bullies, the headmaster finds a disturbing book in his locker, and discovers that the help the boy needs may require an unacceptable sacrifice.
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.