At eighteen, Jade Sampson thought she had found the one man she would spend the rest of her life with, Austin Giles. He had been a long time childhood friend and later became her high school sweetheart. He was perfect in every way... or that's what she once thought. It was your typical hot southern, summer afternoon when she made the dreadful mistake of walking in on him with another woman in a rather compromising position. In a matter of minutes, her easy-going, perfect world came crashing down like a ton of bricks. Utterly heart broken and destroyed, Jade made the decision to leave her small home town and make her own way. It wasn't until five years later she received a call that would turn her new life upside down again. Her father, the same father that turned his back on her all those years ago had passed away. Now that she is forced to go back home and settle his affairs, how will she handle seeing Austin once again? Can she protect her heart any better this go round or will she relive the same mistakes and lose it all again.

Hope was born bearing the mark of the Lyric. She has known all her life about the odd shaped birthmark on the back of her neck but never knew what it truly stood for. Her eighteenth birthday arrives and strange things begin to happen causing Hope to rethink her priorities in life. Before her concerns centered around the simple life of any average high school teenager . Now, with her new found abilities and the discovery of a new friend in the most unlikely of places she decides that it is her time to finally make a difference. But as she sets out for a journey of a life time another group of people, the Special Forces, have a different plans for her. Will she succumb to their wishes or will she follow her heart and fight for the greater good?