When Isolde moves to the small town of Thornville, she is in for a shock. Everybody knows everybody else, and their business. The town is buzzing about the new mother and daughter who moved into the haunted house, but Isolde just thinks of it as an old rumor. Then she gets the biggest shock of all - the old rumor is true. She is suddenly whipped up in a dangerous and mysterious adventure with Lyric and his family. Her new friendship is tested when she must decide if she will help Lyric at the risk of losing herself and her new life.
The main character of "Borderline" is Sami, a Muslim teenager. He thinks that his life is as complicated as it gets when his strict father sends him to private school, where he is picked on and lonely because of the color of his skin. However, his life gets more complicated when he realizes his dad is keeping secrets from him and his mom. One night, the FBI break into his house and arrest his father on charges of being involved in a terrorist group. Things at school are getting worse, and when the Academy expels him for being his father's son, Sami decides to take action.
