In Gatlin, South Carolina, teen Ethan Wate awakens from a recurring dream of a girl he has not met. He despairs of his small-town existence and dreams of leaving for college. On his first day of junior year, newcomer Lena Duchannes arrives, who resembles the girl in Ethan’s dreams. Other students gossip about Lena’s reclusive uncle Macon Ravenwood, and suggest that the members of her family are devil worshippers. On the way home, Ethan nearly runs her over. Giving her a ride, they bond over interests.
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In class, a few students insist that they cannot be in class with Lena and pray to be protected from her and her family. Visibly shaken, her class windows shatter, which increases fears and suspicions that she is a witch. Ethan and Lena become friends, and he gives her a locket that he found at Greenbriar. Both touch the locket, which triggers a shared flashback to the American Civil War.
Macon disapproves of their relationship and conspires with Ethan’s family friend Amma to separate them. Lena tells Ethan that she and her family are “casters” (called witches by mortals) and can perform spells. On her 16th birthday, her true nature will reveal itself toward either the light or dark.
Complications arise when two powerful dark casters aim to push Lena to the dark: Lena’s cousin Ridley and Lena’s mother Sarafine, who did not raise Lena and has possessed the mother of Ethan’s friend Link, Mrs. Lincoln. Foreseeing that Lena will become a powerful caster, Sarafine wants Lena to use her power to purge the Earth of mortals and leave just casters.
The couple have another flashback of their past with the locket that reveals that their ancestors, the caster Genevieve Duchannes and the mortal Confederate soldier Ethan Carter Wate, were in love. Ethan died in battle, and Genevieve revived him, laying a curse on all Duchannes women to go dark on their 16th birthday.
A mortified Lena asks Amma for help, as she is a seer and keeper of the caster library. The most ancient of the books reveals the secret to undoing the curse: a person Lena loves has to die. Unwilling to take Ethan’s life, Lena erases his memories of their love.
Seducing Link, Ridley gives him a bullet to use in the Civil War reenactment on Lena’s 16th birthday. Lena feels the shock of the curse being broken, runs to Ethan, and clutches his dying body. With Ridley and Sarafine encouraging her to accept the dark, Lena lashes out in anger and unleashes her power, ultimately sacrificing Macon to lift the curse.
As Macon is dying, he reveals his promise to Ethan’s mother to keep her son alive, motivating Lena to embrace her true self. She seals away Sarafine’s spirit, bringing an end to the darkness that threatened to consume her.
Six months later, an amnesiac Ethan visits Amma in the library, while Lena, now a half light/dark caster, gives him a book they once shared. As Ethan and Link leave town, Ethan’s memories are restored, and he calls out for Lena.
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