When six friends from Massachusetts travel to the Jersey Shore, they end up on Clinton Road at a house on a lake. They're not alone, and one by one they disappear. Who will survive?

Linguistics Ph.D. student Julie, can speak almost every language you can imagine. Things turn upside down for Julie when handsome Dan, contacts her to get some French classes. Sparks soon fly - could this be their perfect match?

In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets.