When Kara Frazer was eleven years old, her little brother died in a tragic fire. Now twenty, she is still plagued from the guilt of his death. She moved to Michigamme with Samantha, her morally flexible best friend, to attend college. Upon her arrival, a grisly ghost of a little boy confronted her by the lake along with a swarm of fireflies-the harbingers of death. Between attending classes, conversing with her overbearingly religious schizophrenic...