In a place called Hevana, spirits wage a hidden war on those who cheat death. These spirits are governed by a protector spirit, and that responsibility is bestowed upon a new spirit within their death. With what little she knows, Anna McCrain passes away and discovers quickly that she is Hevana's newest protector, but she has no idea where to begin. Thus, the story begins.

Jetai is a member of the Noorka tribe on the planet Essen, and she is the most beautiful. But soon she realizes her world is about to be threatened, and her life is about to change. Humans from Earth - the unworldly - have come to study them, and the Essalonians are furious. War will be imposed on when Jetai is kidnapped, but she finds something in another Essalonian that her current boyfriend could never give her: real love.

Carmella Breah Cummings is a girl who believes firmly in equality, freedom and justice: three things she does not have, and doubts she will ever get. She lives in an Illegal Child Facility in New America, ruled by a dictatorship. By law she meets her parents and two older siblings at the age of sixteen, and gets to taste a bit of freedom. But true freedom, she realizes, comes with slavery. Just as ignorance is strength, and as peace... comes with war. Book one of three