Luke Garner has managed to adjust to his new life as Lee Grant, an alias he has adopted since he has come out of hiding, at Hendricks School for Boys. Things change when the Grants, a prominent Baron family who donated the name of their son when he died in a ski accident, decide to send the real Lee's brother, Smits, to the school and bring "Lee" back home.
Luke is soon caught up in a complicated web of lies in a world where he is completely unprotected from anything that will prove he is an illegal third child. He has no idea who he can trust, especially Smits and his bodyguard, and as a member of the Grant family in name, Luke is in an incredible amount of danger. Furthermore, the Grant family selfishly desires to express their grief over the real Lee's death by faking "Lee"'s death and give Luke another alias.