One year after the North's moved into her hometown, Ryan Hutchinson still considers herself to be living a fairly normal life. With the threat of dying now past, she focuses on her future, preparing for college and why lies after. However, when the North's unexpectedly leave, she finds her whole world turned upside down. With the North's absent, mysterious strangers ascend upon her small town, intent on making her life interesting. Who are they, and why are they so interested in her?

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Chapter One: Continuation
Chapter Two: Life
Chapter Three: Paranoid
Chapter Four: Heartbreak
Chapter Five: Departure
Chapter Six: Patterns
Chapter Seven: Father
Chapter Eight: Shock
Chapter Nine: Girlfriend
Chapter Ten: Psycho
Chapter Eleven: Return
Chapter Twelve: Family
Chapter Thirteen: Left
Chapter Fourteen: Sister
Chapter Fifteen: King
Chapter Sixteen: Interest
Chapter Seventeen: Royalty
Chapter Enighteen: Brothers
Chapter Nineteen: Taken
Chapter Twenty: Overseas
Chapter Twenty-one: Ancestry
Chapter Twenty-two: Order
Chapter Twenty-three: Liberation
Chapter Twenty-four: Flight
Chapter Twenty-five: Home
Epilogue: Normal