Seventeen-year-old Ella, who is older than her time, more like an old soul, has a newfound brother, Colton. Ella's best friend Rusty stays by her side, and even covers for her as she is trying uncover her family's skeletons in the closet. Ella finds out some disturbing secrets about her father's side of the family, a father she never got to meet. The story brings the past to the present with stories, and experiences. The past is based on WWII, in Nazi Germany, and Himmler is looking for scientists to be able to control others using their disturbing experiments. Ella wants to know all the family's secrets, and she has to figure out what Uncle Joseph is up to, and how it involves her.