Part One: The Time of the Pouring Rains

[unedited, read with caution] 'On my sixteenth birthday, my mother killed my father, and things started to go downhill from there.' Suddenly thrust into a world of magic and monsters, where secrets come up around every bend, Samantha Summers doesn't know who to trust. Enchanted by her mother, deceived by a boy and betrayed by her best friend, she's trapped with no way out. And they want to break free, to tip the world into chaos and darkness. But there's a catch. Most of them are locked up. And Sam has the only key.