Cora Silvertongue lives at 'The Institute' with her brother Tommy. A place where people are trained to be warriors. Assassins. Cora attends her classes and everything seems to be going well until she and her brother discover they aren't like everyone else. They have powers they don't even understand let alone know how to use. All of this is made worse when the mysterious Max keeps appearing in Cora's dreams along with a dizzying sense of déjà vu....