Nina has never been out of her home town, Oakley, Kansas, where she lives with her mother. The summer before her senior year, she decides to spend the summer in Meadville, Pennsylvania with her Aunt Margerat. Upon arriving in Meadville she is immediately informed of the strange “friend” living with Margerat. Not only is he not a friend, but he is also a serial killer in disguise, and Nina is forced to reveal his real identity before she is killed herself.