On the surface, the life of nineteen-year-old Jesse St. Claire is like so many other suburban slackers. He sleeps in late while living at home with his parents and spends the money from his job on his car. Beneath the surface, he's a kid waiting for an opportunity to do more with his life while trying to learn how to become a man. The only company he's ever worked for is a corrupt suburban mortgage brokerage his stepfather's cousin owns and Jesse suddenly finds himself homeless after standing up to his irrational stepfather. He begins working for a new company while also given an opportunity to stay in the caretaker's cottage at the long neglected and abandoned Kettering mansion. Over the next year his fortunes change while also discovering the truth about his mother, his biological father and the past. It is a past his mother desperately wants to keep secret and others are willing to kill to keep forgotten. Jesse has to battle for the truth no matter what the consequences.