Eleven-year-old Betts is now living with, and fighting with her best friend, Cara. Their teacher might be witch, the therapist has a talking cat, and Betts' anger spills over at school, bloodying a bully and threatening Betts' place there. Cara's mother is missing, then horribly found, and Cara has to fight to stay in the cabin on Bear Hill. Families are lost, and then found, and love finds a way to heal and hold the people in Betts' life.