Torn between uncovering a prophecy and survival, nothing can be the same.
Everything Olivia Rhodes thought she knew has been turned upside down. After watching the Veil break into a thousand pieces before her eyes and then nearly killed by Hunter's not-so-deceased father, she's left bruised and devastated-and with an earth-shattering realization that changes the rules of the game.
Hunter Black, the handsome neighbor with deep blue eyes who could stop time with a snap of his fingers, is now gone, but there's a lot more at stake than any of them could have ever imagined. Trying to cope with his absence and the endless secrets he left behind, Olivia ventures into the hidden world of the Circle, who have finally made their great return.
Their sudden presence and interest in fixing the ravages left behind by Vincent's doings seems too suspicious, and if Olivia hadn't been so frustrated trying to understand her own powers, which appear to be shining through at a higher rate with every passing day, she wouldn't have noticed Adam Pierce, a skilled Circle member who has made it his mission to make her life impossible. His attitude alone is enough to drive her away, but he seems to know a bit too much about the Circle's secrets and her own, making it impossible for Olivia to escape his little games.
There's a secret that she must keep at all costs, and when her mind suddenly starts playing tricks on her, she starts to lose the ability to tell between what's real and what's not. The problem? If the Circle or the Infernal Council find out the truths she is slowly uncovering, they'll kill her.
But as the rogue Forgotten who managed their escape through the cracking Veil begin to cause havoc, and Vincent starts to close in on her, Olivia is running out of options. She needs to get Hunter back before the Veil consumes itself, and if she doesn't figure out who she can trust-and fast-it's not only her heart that will be torn apart, but the world itself.
Ariella's biggest desire in life has always been such a simple one. She wants to be 'normal.' Unfortunately, that one simple wish has never been within her grasp. Coming from a long line of witches is bad enough, but she's even more different than the rest of her family. The fact that no one will give her any answers to why she's so different doesn't help matters. Her entire existence is shrouded in secrets that everyone around her refuses to reveal.
After a family tragedy, she moves to a new town, and she gets her first chance to at least pretend to be 'normal.' For the first time, she's allowed to leave the house and go to an actual school. She makes friends, and she develops her first crush, that's quickly followed by her second.
She's finally living the normal teenage life she'd dreamed of, but it doesn't last. Everything she believed about herself and the world around her is changed in an instant. Family secrets come to light one after another, turning her entire world upside down in the process. She quickly realizes that sometimes ignorance really is bliss, and maybe she didn't really want to know the answers to the questions she'd always asked, especially when one of these truths causes people close to her to turn their backs on her without hesitation.
Before she can even recover from the shock, she's thrust into a war that she hadn't even known existed. Loyalties will be tested. She'll have to choose sides between all of the people she's come to care about.
Will she stand with her family, her new friends, or the two boys who both hold a piece of her heart?
One thing is for sure. She'll have to let go of her dream of 'normal.'