Grady Pearson has always been different. He's an outsider, not really belonging anywhere. With an English father and American mother, he feels in-between, not sure of his place around other children. In their new home, Grady does eventually make friends, but things go terribly wrong as bullying escalates to an event that almost kills him. The childhood trauma of his pre-teen years permanently and fundamentally changes him. He begins to see enemies...