A tragic local mystery from the past is blown wide open when a girl from the poor side of town infiltrates a group of reckless, wealthy boys and uncovers more than she could have imagined. Everyone in Tenney's Harbor, Maine, knows about the Garrison tragedy, when a house fire killed four of the five family members. Fingers point at Pearl Haskins' father, who was the caretaker of the property, but Pearl doesn't believe it. Pearl's future never held...

Amy starts her freshman year with a new crush on Ricky, Cat's brother, and a new friend in Finn, the lighthouse keeper, but things get complicated when Craig returns from Boston and Finn is accused of arson.

Following her fortune-hunting mother's plan, a teenaged arsonist meets her wealthy, dying father, the owner of a priceless art collection, only to discover that the stories she's been told about him all her life might not have been true.