Lyla’s life didn’t use to be this complicated, except for the fact that Lyla is as witch, her life used to be pretty ordinary, but when her mother dies and she’s sent to live with her father, who’s like a stranger to her things change. Suddenly she has to keep her powers a secret. She has to deal with her father’s crazy family who hate her. And even the boy she likes might be holding something back. Everybody seems to be lying to Lyla, but does she really want to know the truth?

Two rival faery queens both want sixteen-year-old Nora for their own. The cost of their attention could very well be her death. The only way out of their twisted game is to solve a complicated riddle where the answer is the key to survival.