There are no surprises in Gatlin. We lived in the very epicenter of the road to nowhere. At least that's what I thought. As it turns out, I was wrong. There was a curse. There was a girl. And then... there was a grave. Lena Duquesne is different from everyone the small southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, she struggles with herself, trying to tame her power and the curse that has haunted her family for centuries. But even in the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and ruined burial grounds of the forgotten South, the secret will not live forever. Ethan Waite, counting the days until his escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena comes to live in a house on the oldest and creepiest of all the plantations in the city, Ethan falls unconditionally in love with her and purposefully tries to uncover the secret of their amazing connection. In a city without surprises, one secret can change everything.