Amarantha has lived a life in secret. After failing her 13th year coming-of-age ceremony, she was resigned to living her life as an outsider among her people, the Laruta. To them, her connection to the energies of the world was too chaotic and lawless, not easily packaged into the manipulation of one of the four elements. A minor slip-up would draw attention from the ruling party, a people that draw their energy from the spirit, the Sumin. When the Sumin come for her, Amarantha is forced to reevaluate everything she has ever been told. Her ability to stretch her power forward becomes her salvation. If she can control it, that is.