IT HURTS to see him kiss the girl - a beautiful girl. But then I come to my senses: I am proud. No guy will be the cause of my pain. Kimiko Callaghan is a highly gifted student at MIT. At 15 she is very young, but at the same time levelheaded, strong and not so easily intimidated. She meets Andre de Rocha, a mysterious fellow student, who avoids her. When her Yakuza cousin visits, things get dangerous.

His blank face was devoid of any emotion, his green cold eyes were taking me in. "Don't run, Callida, I'll catch you", his smooth but manly voice warned. Callida is a human girl living in the harsh world of Desa. Destiny has bound her to Gaisgeil, the cold and cruel ruler of this world. Will she accept the bond? Once upon a time the earth was warm and humans lived a comfortable life. Now the earth is cold, new creatures rule on the remains of humans. Callida knows, somewhere in a mysterious past, humans were the rulers of this world. What changed? Why are humans now at the end of the food chain? She has one aim: to reveal the secrets of this new world, where strength is the only valuable currency.