Ten years ago, Anastasia Orell saw her parents and little brother die in a car crash, leaving her orphaned, wounded, and most of all, with heterochromic eyes.
Skip to the present, she's 16 and a brilliant student, but emotionally? Only getting by. She just doesn't care.
Her life turns a complete 180 though, when she, in a horrifying fit of rage, conjures dual coloured flames from her hands and kills two delinquents. Shortly, a team of four people, The Archains, show up from The Organization, and soon she's involved in crime, justice, a story of past regrets, romance and adventure... the likes of which she never even dreamed of having.
She just wanted perfect grades. Instead she got a criminal record and a taste for bloodlust.
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and justice for the deserving."
In the aftermath of a devastating event, a once-close family is torn apart by the burden of an ancient feud between their ancestors. The father, along with his sons, seeks refuge in the depths of South America, while the mother takes to the road across the United States, hiding with their only daughter.
Five years later, a single phone call from an old ally summons the brothers back to the U.S., urgently needed to help their sister. But when they arrive, they discover she isn't the only one in need of their assistance. There's someone else-someone they knew existed but had never met: their youngest sister, Estella. She was the child their mother was pregnant with when she fled their family home in Connecticut so many years ago.
Now, Estella's world has been turned upside down, and the family is thrust into a heart-wrenching reunion. Told through the innocent eyes of a five-year-old girl, this is a story of a broken family struggling to protect one another from the cruel forces that have torn them apart. Will the innocence of a child be enough to heal the wounds of the past, or has time already sealed their fate forever?