-this is a sequel to Fire & Ice- Lake knew the time was coming when everything would go wrong, he just didn't realize it would be this soon. There are a lot of things he can deal with, especially with his team to help out. The fact that The Vault's tagline is that it's "the place nobody ever comes back from" really isn't promising, though. The evidence against him also isn't very reassuring.

It seems like everyone Lake knows has already met their other half. He's spent years in waiting but has finally turned his back on fate. The counterpart system is simple but his life is not, so he doesn't expect it to work for him as it has for everyone else. He joins the League as the next logical step in his life. It's the best option for anyone with powers, and Lake can control ice. His new career will serve as a distraction from the disappointment of the counterpart system if nothing else. When Lake is assigned to an undercover operation that he's out of his depth with from the beginning, he gets far more than he bargained for. His friends have told him their stories of how they met their counterparts, but he's pretty sure that he can top all of them after he encounters the son of the man he is supposed to arrest.

Here, you have two options: To search, or to settle. When random marks appear on your skin, would you read into it, or pray it goes away? When purple flowers bloom on your wrist, do you watch or fill it in? And when your soulmate is searching for you, do you search or settle? Levee Diaz, a settling, gender fluid teenager is just hoping to skid past high school and into college, so when the marks appear on his skin, he ignores them. But Olive Kelley won't give up. So he keeps drawing the carnations, over and over, from his arm to Levee's. When Levee finds strange, searing marks on their leg, they're suddenly very interested in finding Olive, hoping to get to the bottom of his self harm. But Olive is now focused on very different things; His favourite place in the world is now being destroyed, the beauty ripped up and replaced with cobble drives and plaster walls. Now separated by states and situations, Levee and Olive wonder if they'll ever meet, and solve the problems that continue to get worse.