When sixteen-year-old Zaria Brighthouse finds herself being followed on her walk home from school one day, she has no idea that the stranger, Mykail, will ultimately open the door into a world completely unlike her native New Jersey, or anything on the Earth she knows of. In this new world of confusing social politics, magic, and the possibility of power beyond her wildest dreams, Zaria finds that destiny may have much more in store than she bargained for.