In a dystopian-esque world witty Seattle Brennan hates life. The Peacemaker's have ruined everything good in the world. There is no freedom. No freedom of how you act, how you dress but worst of all - how long you live. You can only live to 100. That's it. But what happens when a girl with heterochromia iridum doesn't want to live like that anymore?

Lyla Parc is just an ordinary girl. Well, as ordinary as she can get when she lives in another universe on a planet called Cosmyd, her parents are dead and her grandmother just happens to be the Lady of Constance, the largest city on the planet. Besides that, she really is ordinary. However, she has a recurring nightmare of her hands bursting into flames. It's one that causes her fear and sleepless nights, and with only one friend at her boarding school to help her through it, she wonders if these dreams will ever stop. Except one day, her nightmare comes true. Thrust into a world of magic, mystery and deceit, Lyla must learn to control her new powers, unravel the puzzle of her parents' disappearance and choose between her first boyfriend and the forbidden love of her arai.