Lina's an outsider-she always has been. Her gypsy heritage and upbringing has led kids to outcast her from the start. Lina has, by high school, embraced it. She is a gypsy and she is proud of it. Her magical abilities are just starting to grow, although no one but her grandmother knows yet.
Then Demetri Wavers, a new student with a strange accent, shows up and takes an immediate interest in Lina. What does he want? Why does he keep talking to her? Could he just be intrigued by her strange manner?
Or is it something more?