After fourteen years of not knowing how her mother came to meet the brutal end to her life, Zariel is prepared to venture outside the fence, into the unknown, forbidden land to face the mysteries behind her mothers death. With a willingness to loose her secure belonging to the city of Bela and never return, she's going to do whatever it takes to learn about her mother she never truly knew. And a step outside of the fence is only the beginning of her adventure...

Maddie is a teenager who is hiding an extraordinary secret from her friends, but when new student Rhydian turns up, Maddie's world gets a lot more complicated.