Last year 14-year-old Jason Taggart and their classmates left childhood behind. Now back in Wisdom, they struggle both with who and what they are and with the usual struggles of growing up. Unknown to the students, though, the company that created Wisdom has plans. With the perfect group with which to experiment, The Levy Project decides to test its students' social development and adaptation skills.

Jason and his girlfriend Darla Jansen are split apart. She's sent to school in Arkansas while he goes to California, ostensibly to learn more about what the company actually does.

All of his years in school did not prepare Jason for what he encounters. With several decades of moral, social and educational decay the schools outside Wisdom form a hostile environment in which Jason is powerless to act. Throw in drugs, loose morals and teenage hormones and it's a battle Jason may not be able to win.

Besides the struggle to maintain his self-discipline, Jason and the company man he's assigned to assist discover something even worse. Someone in town is messing with things best left alone. Strange and bloodthirsty Fey creatures are about and someone at Jason's school is controlling them! Now it's up to Jason to discover who, where, how and why. Failing may cost Jason his life but success may cost him everything else he holds dear.