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The story takes place in a small town in Gatlin, South Carolina with a boy named Ethan Wate. The town is not one of those storybook towns familiar as the one in fairytales books. Moreover, it is is as Ethan describes it, Isolating and suffocating because everyone knows everyone. Ethan dreams of escaping after high school to the farthest college away he can enroll in to get out of this town. Ethan’s mother was killed in a car accident, and after that, his father became a withdrawn, absent dad, holed away in his study. Though Ethan does have the company of his housekeeper Amma, who had been there to raise his dad when he was growing up. Amma has the gift of foresight, and she is in some ways the town considers her the modern day witch. Ethan had repeatedly had a dream about this girl falling, and he tries to catch her but is always just slightly out of reach. When he wakes up, he smells rosemary and lemons, and on his iPod, he hears the song,Sixteen Moons” a song he has never heard up until the dreams started. Later that day at school Ethan meets a girl named Lena Duchannes, and she’s the new girl, who is the granddaughter of the infamous Macon Ravenwood. Macon is a reclusive, mysterious owner of the Ravenwood Manor, a grand old plantation house from the times of the civil war, maybe even before then. At school, Ethan suddenly hears “Sixteen Moons” and follows the sound to a music room where he finds Lena playing the song on the cello.He recognizes her as the girl he has dreamt about saving and is shocked to smell rosemary and lemon. He cautiously approaches Lena and tells her about his dream he has been having about her. She denies knowing about anything when Ethan tries to point out the scratches on her hand coinciding with the dream. Over the next week, Ethan slowly gains Lena’s trust by supporting her when students start teasing and bullying her. They end up getting close and making a real connection, even so, close that they start to develop the ability to communicate telepathically, no joke. Lena later tells Ethan that her whole family, including her, have special powers, referring to them as the caster, originated from their ability to cast spells. Ethan eventually learns to accept and even appreciate this fact after a while, because it is a part of Lena. Ethan meets a girl who approaches him at the convenient shop and introduces herself as Lena’s cousin named Ridley, who takes Ethan to Ravenwood Manor. Ridley’s real motives in taking Ethan to the manor is to sneak in and gain access to the house. Ridley becomes angry at her family and declares that Lena will soon be “claimed” on her sixteenth birthday. Lena knows Ridley speaks the truth. The worst part of it all is that she will not have any say over if the dark or the light will claim her. Ethan ends up losing consciousness but not before he hears Lena tell Ridley to leave her “boyfriend” alone, or else. Ethan wakes up in Lena’s bedroom, and Lena explains to Ethan that she cannot be with him because she may turn dark and lose the ability to love anyone or anything. Ethan tells Lena he will love her in any case no matter what she becomes and that he will try to save her from her fate. At first, Macon and Amma both disapprove of the young teenage romance growing between Ethan and Lena, and it becomes apparent that they have some history and prior connection involving the magical happenings in the town.However, this changes when evil forces attack Lena on Halloween. Lena’s family are trying to protect her without success but, after Lena telepathically calls to him, Ethan manages to free her from the enchantment. After this, Lena’s family recognize the strength of Ethan and Lena’s relationship. Amma comes to accept Ethan’s relationship with Lena and invites her over to Thanksgiving dinner at their home. While they are enjoying the dinner, everything suddenly freezes apart from Amma and Lena. Ethan watches helplessly, immobilized, as Amma tells Lena that her mother Serafine is not dead but is dark and responsible for the attacks on Lena. Ethan eavesdrops on Amma and Macon,