At the start of the new school year, Seder finds an abandoned chair in the back of the classroom and decides to use it as his personal place to relax. However, his peaceful life is soon shattered when another student makes him an unexpected request: "Please be my pet."

Katherine Gordy, who goes by the nickname Kit, starts down a dark path after the death of her father. With a misdemeanor arrest and two school suspensions in her past, no one is willing to believe in her innocence when she's accused of arson. Her mother Ginny and step-father Dave don't know what to do with her. When a member of a mysterious, exclusive academy, the Blackwood Boarding School, approaches the family with a reeducation plan, Ginny accepts...