Sixteen-year-old Maggie Addison is a goon. At least that's what she's branded after she starts an epic hockey brawl following her team's disappointing loss in the playoffs. Kicked out of the league for a year, her parents decide that Maggie's best option is to lie low for a while. and what better place to do that than in a remote northern community on the shore of one of the largest lakes in Saskatchewan?

But this is not just any lake. It's Reindeer Lake, supposedly home to the fabled Deep Bay Monster. Maggie has no time for such nonsense, preferring to keep herself rooted in the real world. However, the more time she spends up north, the stranger her "real" world becomes, to the point that she begins to wonder if it's time to broaden her perspective, even if that means playing a sport that is the bane of her existence . . . curling.