Tess and her mother move to Century Falls, a small village where only two other children live possessed of psychic powers. After learning the mother is pregnant, the other villagers start hatching a sinister plan around the newcomers.
Tess's mother learns of an event from 40 years before after which no child was born in Century Falls. The villagers organize a kind of psychic seance called the gathering with the purpose of finding Naismith out.
Mrs Hunter doesn't believe the story about the burning of the village temple, but Tess does. She sets out to uncover what happened that night with the help of the psychic children.
The lifelong connection between Tess's mother and Century Falls is uncovered and an unexpected foe reveals herself - her goal to reawaken the entity which caused the destruction of the village temple 40 years before.
The reawakening ceremony goes awry causing Ben to collapse and Tess to go on the run with one of the Harkness sisters. In order to help, the villagers hold another gathering in order to find out the true intentions of the villains.
The past and the present meet when Century is to be reborn. Tess has to figure out how the future can help save the village after she realizes the villains plan to use her mother and her unborn sister as the vessels.