To find her best friend Polly who went missing, Maren Montgomery enters into a high-stakes world she never knew existed within her boarding academy, where she is forced to play increasingly dangerous games to win Polly's survival.

"Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined"--(Source of summary not specified)

Nancy is worried about her brother Mike secluding himself in their basement after Eleven's disappears, but with Steve's help, she hopes to reconnect with Mike again and help him return to a normal life.