Our lives are normally summed up in words most can't explain. So far, Elizabeth Thompson can sum her life with the word boring. She had lived all of her life perfectly happy with her mother, Dottie, her father, Bob, and her little brother, Tony. Well until her family moved to Scotland, where everything flipped upside down and her life became scary exciting.
Elizabeth continues to sum up her life in those two words when she meets the older brother of Tony's new best friend, Gregory. At the beginning these two just don't seem to get along, for reasons unknown considering the youngest Sackville-Bagg insists the two will fall madly in love and be inseparable, which the two gagged at, but as time slowly goes on Gregory finds truth in young Anna's words.