One bright fall morning, Lyssa Brunner’s life takes a turn for the weird. Up until then, she is an ordinary, sixteen-year-old, slightly nerdy girl with a secret crush on the captain of the football team. After that day, she finds that, not only are things not always as they seem but that they are sometimes something that could never even have been imagined.She’d looked forward to a lot of “firsts”: first date, first kiss, etc. - the usual things a teenaged girl imagines. What she gets is a revelation about her family and herself that take her on a rollercoaster ride into circumstances that, while she does realize some of these ordinary firsts, including that first date, and first kiss, her life changes forever when she is slammed with an incredible first: that of her first time seeing impossible creatures. As she tries to cope with the truth of her new existence things get really bizarre as she is taken on a strange journey to a place that is nowhere on Earth.Will she be able to fulfill her desire for a return to her old, “normal” existence?