This was a really interesting read. At first it follows Travis Wren who is on the hunt for Maggie St. James, an author who suddenly disappeared 5 years ago. However, Travis possesses certain abilities, he's able to see past memories when touching other peoples things. When Travis gets a clue that Maggie might be in a town called Pastoral, he goes searching for her. 

Then the story dramatically changes viewpoints to 3 people, Calla, Theo, and Bee. Calla and Theo have been married for awhile and Bee is Calla's younger blind sister. Together they live in Pastoral, living in fear of the "pox" from the trees. This disease is the reason that they can't leave their compound. If they leave, they might contract the pox and then they will die. According to their leader, Levi.

When Theo starts leaving the compound at night and realizing that he has't caught the pox, something starts stirring in him, especially once he finds an abandoned car down the road that belonged to Travis Wren who was looking for Maggie, St. James. Eventually, Calla finds clues in her garden, a necklace charm and a book, and together they piece together that they are Travis and Maggie. Now they have to figure out what happened to them. Bee's love for Levi, leads her to discover that he has been practicing mind control and hypnosis on everyone in the compound so they would be afraid of the outside world.

The plot twist in this book I think made up for the fact that there were some plot holes. For instance, what was happening to Maggie st. James before Travis made it to Pastoral? And when Travis came to Pastoral and met the guard at the gate, how did that interaction go. I would have liked to see that at the end of the book. Overall, I felt the plot twist made the rest of the book worth it but I would have liked to see more behind the scenes type of scenes as well. It was disturbing finding out that some people were also kidnapped and were missing for so long.