Emerald, at seventeen, has the future any teenager could only dream of having secured. She has received a scholarship to study to become a crime lab analyst, doing an incredibly sought-after job in her community beside her adoring and adorable boyfriend and foreseeable husband, and it's all underneath the proud eyes of her expectant parents. It's perfect.... well, at least it would be if only she could express her pain to others, a demon inside of her taking Emerald's isolation as the optimal soul to rip apart. And after witnessing a shocking murder, she is practically unable to take the sight of a future being unable to express her pain. Then she meets Clive. She finally feels able to get rid of her pain and paralyze the demon inside of her, but when she finds out an act done by Clive, she must choose: Give up the life she has made for herself to go after true love, or live her set life with a demon destroying everything Clive has done for her heart?