Sirrah Keyarra Torielle Winters is adopted by a wealthy family at the tender age of five. It is a dream come true until her peers begin ridiculing her dark skin and her so-called family, set her further apart away from the only place she called home. Sirrah becomes determined to search for her mother, filled with a hope she may finally find someone, someone to accept accepted. Will she ever find peace with the skin she has grown to hate? Or will she find the courage to have the love for the only skin she will ever have?

Eliza spent her childhood living on the edge of her small community. Her mother, a witch, was spurned by the villages. At least in the daytime, but at night, there is a steady stream of men wanting to buy her magic. Her father disappeared years before. Eliza approaches the day of her initiation ceremony, where her fertility will be tested. She hopes she will mate with Robin, the blacksmith she has watched from afar. There are a few complications. Even though she has made a request at the sanctum that for Robin to be here first, he may refuse. There are secrets about this small community that Eliza doesn't know. Secrets about the founding of the colony and why the Laws must be upheld. Faced with both demons and the Enemy, she has choices to make that will affect everyone.

What does it mean when your eyes begin to change colors and your skin begins to turn wrinkly, but it only happens when the clock strikes twelve? Not to mention how your mother leaves you a letter along with a map leading to the middle of nowhere to a woman named Naomi? I don't know, but I'm sure the Big Bad Wolf has an idea.