A graceling is person with a skill that is advanced beyond what any "human" can do.
There are many different graces: fighting, swimming, hunting, being unnoticed.... In this story we meet a 17 year old girl that goes by Shadow. She is graced. She has a stealth grace, but like most graclings, Shadow hasn't yet mastered her grace. Her grace creeps into the minds of the people she comes across and they simply don't notice her. She's not invisible, she just appears to be a normal stranger walking down the road. Because of her grace no one ever remembers her.... No one, except Aiden.
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.