Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her.
Suspicious and uneasy at her new boarding school, 14-year-old Kit finally realizes that she and the other three students were selected because they share the ability to utilize the talents of dead artists and musicians.