❝You are so predictably ignorant for someone who acts as though they have the wisdom of the past four centuries❞ To Juliet, everything the world has offered has never been enough to keep her from getting tired. To Phoenix, ordinary is becoming acceptable. So unlikely- it just might be probable. When British exchange student, Juliet, chooses to spend her last year of high school in suburban Connecticut, she meets Phoenix, a local boy who has settled into the mundane life his environment offers. What follows brinks unremarkable.

"When you were four years old, you died." "...How?" "Angels, Alianna. They're angels." When Alianna dies a tragic death at age four, a woman in black appears and offers her desperate parents her life back. They agree, under the circumstances that at age eighteen, she is to marry the woman's son, Cade Merceaux, and enter the world they live in. Angels. Demons. A constant fight, a never ending comparison of power. A war between the iridescent living, and the punished and forgotten ones. Light and dark. "This is why you're here. This is why you are alive. You will see...You will see..."

In the Mid Victorian Era, the atmosphere is filled with confusion, as the small kingdom of Sicalia debates on the new heir to the throne, with an unexpected turn up. The problems on the surface were endless, but hidden behind the beautiful faces of Sicalia's ladies, there are many more. The Henry family, their daughter Evelyn quarreled between two men. The Sinnet family, troubled with bankruptcy and the sudden disappearance of their son, James, which was strangely connected to the vanishing of the Madison family's only daughter, Anna. As the balls continue, full of fake smiles, no one knows their secrets, or anyone's intentions. The golden rule? Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.