These are the things seventeen-year-old Melissa Croft knows for sure—her skin is burning-cold, she can’t feel temperature or pain, and everywhere she goes, an unnatural winter soon follows. Saddled with a rare medical illness everyone is calling “cancer” for lack of a better word, her life has always been slightly…strange. But there are things she doesn’t know. After a bizarre encounter with a fellow student, it becomes apparent that her world may be a lot stranger than she originally thought. As the truths she held onto for so long start to fall apart around her, Melissa finds herself wrapped up in a world where the supernatural reigns, a world of powers and prophecies, of savage bloodlines and impending war, of ghosts and spirits and spectres—and no, those aren’t the same thing. It’s a world where the line between good and evil, right and wrong, isn’t as clear-cut as you would like to think, and nothing—and no-one—is as it seems. Whether she likes it or not, Melissa has a crucial role to play in this strange new world. But it’s not going to matter if she doesn’t find a way to cure her supernatural illness first. There’s a very strong chance it’s going to kill her—and her life isn’t the only one that hangs in the balance.