Claire Thornton has grown up with absolutely nothing but her smarts to rely on. Her life can be characterized by ugly misfortunes, but why does it all feel predetermined?

When a new boy in town, who seems as if fate folds and bends to his will, arrogantly arrives, Claire is enraged. Everything good in his life seems methodically calculated. How does he do it?

Seeing his luck infuriates her, reminding Claire of everything she is not. But when reality is nothing but a weak inconstant to this strange boy, what happens when Claire sees right through it?

And what meaning, if any at all, does life have, when you control it?

She wants to know his secret.

He hasn’t decided what it is yet.