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After a mysterious meteorological event, a group of strangers calling themselves Castaways settled on the wrong side of the tracks in the sleepy beach town of Tanglewood. Afraid and suspicious of anything that crossed the sky, they kept to themselves. But since their arrival thirty years ago, they’ve gradually integrated into society. They own businesses. Sit on the city council. Their children go to the local schools. They’ve been accepted, although not entirely embraced.And they’ve always kept their secrets.When sixteen-year-old Hayley is uprooted from her comfortable life and sent to Tanglewood to live with the father she barely remembers, she learns she’s anything but the normal teenager she thought herself to be. Her father is the leader of the Castaways, and he’s brought Hayley here for a reason he refuses to share.Struggling to fit in, Hayley finds herself being judged for a background she didn’t even know about until coming to Tanglewood. Why is the quirky Castaway girl so hostile towards her? What’s with the darkness surrounding one of the popular boys? Why does the alien world Hayley keeps seeing in her dreams feel so familiar?When a frightening threat arrives in town, Hayley discovers that her place in Castaway society has been preordained. But destiny in Castaway society is governed by math and science. Can one sixteen-year-old girl who’s failing physics manipulate a mathematical history that has remained unchanged for thousands of years?