During their junior year, three teens register at Riverbank High—three among two thousand. The new students show up for classes, take notes and hand in assignments.
Unnoticed, they walk among the crowds of young people that hustle through the corridors and pack into classrooms. But beneath their outward appearance, each bears a hidden trauma that goes unknown and unseen.
In time, their paths cross and friendships form. Then one goes missing.
The school year has ended. Jess is found, but unnerved by her experience. Sebastian’s father is released from prison. And Mallory?
Once again, Mallory is uprooted by her domineering father and moved to an apartment far from her friends and school. In an unguarded moment, her father mutters a cryptic comment about her mother. Mallory is taken aback. Her father rarely speaks of her mother, and only to say, “She abandoned you as a baby.” Mallory doesn’t even know her mother’s name.
Mallory begins to question: Who is my mother? What is her name? Why did she abandon me? . . . Was I abandoned?
Mallory is determinded to find the truth.