Tony Price is a popular high school track star and occasional delinquent aching for his dad's attention and approval. Eli Hirsch is a quiet boy with a chronic autoimmune disorder that has ravaged his health and social life. What happens when these two become unlikely friends (and a whole lot more...) in the spooky town of Blackwater, Maine?

Werewolf curses, unsavoury interactions with the quarterback of the football team, a ghostly fisherman haunting the harbour, and tons of high school drama.