All Alaine Turner wants is to find the family who gave her up as a baby—and the day she passes her driving test, she leaves her adoptive family to seek out her blood relatives. On the way, she collides with a strange man, who transfers a piece of magic into her. Suddenly, she’s no longer in her small town in Washington State, but on another world called Coran, in a city that despises Gifted people. The magic running through her veins saves her from the hangman’s noose, but not from the vengeful hands of the crown prince.

Prince Mikael has returned home to Caledonia from a temporary exile in the north, determined to become the prince his people will fear and respect. Vowing to spend the rest of his days bringing the Gifted to justice, he finds himself conflicted when he discovers that his sister is one of them. To make matters worse, a young woman he sent to the gallows reveals a level of power he’s never seen before. Torn between his father’s approval and protecting his sister, Mikael must make a choice that will decide his future—and the lives of Calendonia’s Gifted—even if it means enduring exile and anguish once again.

Magic will bring Alaine and Mikael together, but can they put their drastic differences aside to help one another in a world that wants to tear them apart?