With her father's memory failing and her mother gone, Soraya Thenayu enrolls in distant Darkwood Academy and immediately becomes enemies with the richest kid at school. Between hiding her father's gift of illegally harvested magic, befriending social outcasts, and juggling classes, Soraya's already stressful situation intensifies when an otherworldly foe threatens to possess her. Soraya must choose between keeping her magic a secret or saving herself and her new friends.

The world is alive and dying. Akupara , the turtle spirit of the Earth, he who fuels the world is being battered by invading Saturn gods. As fresh wounds upon his soil grow in number and balance of Triad forces of magic nears its breaking point, children of his descent are being hunted day after day. After fifty years since the Raid of Heladiv, the eye of the world has fallen to the armies of gods. Bitten by a blood sucking kitsune but alive and sane, Aparna and her friends flee to Temple of Triad at the heart of the world. For thus happens the rise of a circle of change, for change is dominant and thus ripples its tune. As it shall be so in spins to come, till turtle lives and magic survive... Thus begins a tale of friendship, night lessons, lots of wine, drunken teachers, rattling coins, slashing swords, cage duals, ruffling noble feathers, assassins and a hell lot of magical mayhem.