Every touch from him makes me feel alive—he awoke something inside of me, and it sings. When Emma’s parents die right before her eyes in a horrific car accident, the pain and emptiness she experiences is suffocating. Emma doesn’t remember having any feelings or emotions before the accident. The constant misery of living with the emptiness seems too much for her to bear. When a boy moves in across the street during the summer before her junior year of high school, things seem different with him. When she is around him, or when he simply touches her, Emma's pain is lifted. Her sorrow and misery are gone, and her soul seems to literally sing. Suddenly, living doesn't seem as difficult anymore—and, for the first time in as long as she can remember, she feels alive. As Emma learns the truth behind her parents’ deaths, she realizes that everything she has ever known about herself, the world, and even the universe has all been a lie. As secrets from her parents’ past come to hunt her down, and now that she actually wants to live, will Emma have the strength to do so? When you have lost your heart, sometimes, you find your soul.

Sixteen years ago, I took a vow that changed everything.Earth had done a lot of things to me over the years. I always had desires, hopes and dreams. However, wanting to follow my own heart over duty? That was new.Guardian knights protect the ancient heirs of Terra. This is an honor and a privilege. I was not created to follow my own path. I was bred, born, raised and trained to be a guardian knight. The single night I let myself forget my purpose resulted in death. One moment of freedom was all it took to kill my best friend, his wife and scar Emma forever. I know that if I had been there—if I was in that back seat with Emma, I could have saved them all. I vowed from that moment on that I would never let the ways of Earth corrupt my soul.I am Rykerian Dallard. I am a guardian knight of the first kingdom of Terra. I will stop at nothing until I find who murdered Emma's family. I will keep her safe.I can not, and I will not fail, not again.

Emma’s life went from tragedy to tragedy, like bees fly from flower to flower. Not only were her parents murdered before her eyes, her best friend was beaten, the boy she loved had his soul taken, but she also had to come to terms with her new identity as a princess from a planet where peoples’ souls actually sing. But Emma’s newest problem—how to save the boy she loved before there was nothing left to save—felt entirely impossible to overcome. Yes, it is a lot for any teenager to deal with. If she had her Shad, not the soulless boy who looked like him at her side, she knew nothing would be too much for her to handle. However, when Cadian shows up at her school, Emma adds him to her lengthy list of problems. She tries to keep away from him, but with Shad’s melody inside of Cadian, it makes everything more complicated. The hatred she harbors for him starts to change. Is he playing a game? Or is it possible that when he has a soul, he isn't as evil as she once believed him to be? Emma knows that time is running out for Shad. Forced to go against everything she holds dear, to get closer to the one person she hates more than anyone, she is determined to steal back Shad’s soul. Shad is worth any risk, any pain that she will have to endure. She will save him, no matter the cost.

You may think you know me. I am the guy who killed Emma's parents. I am Shad's corrupt brother, the guy who held Ryker captive, and the guy who stole Shad's soul. But only some of those things are correct about me. All I want is what is mine—what was stolen from me; my life. Yes, you think I stole my brother's soul. Well, watch me reveal the truth as I steal his girl.

Shad is alive. When Emma split her soul in two, giving one half to Shad and keeping the other, she had no idea of the pain and the ache it would cause within herself. There was only one hope to restore Shad’s soul so that Emma and Shad could be together, and that hope was on Terra. Stepping into another world full of strange stories, beautiful castles, haunting forest, unexplained magic, broken people, rampant soullessness, and beings with the ability to see the future, Emma soon discovers there is more that needs saving than just her and Shad, and their melodies. As Emma starts to discover just exactly what it means to be an ancient Heir of the first kingdom, she realizes that the power to save Shad rests inside of her, only she has no idea how to use it—and how to access her ability has been kept a secret for hundreds of years. Deciding to leave the boy she loves in order to find a way to save him may just be one of the hardest things she has ever done. But even if Emma learns how to use her gift to save Shad, is it too late for them to be together? Is her fate really tied to Ryker in a way that can't be changed? And as Tarick sends soulless to murder and corrupt the people of the blessed lands, and as an army grows in the second kingdom to defeat the corrupt, Emma learns that, maybe, what she personally desires isn’t what matters most. Maybe defeating Tarick once and for all is her duty. Maybe Emma was never supposed to get her happily ever after, afterall. Maybe, claiming the first kingdom’s throne and taking back what was stolen from her family was more important than being with the man she loves. One thing was for sure, Emma wasn't going to let Tarick ruin any more lives than he already had if she could do something about it. Even if she couldn't get her happy ending, she would make sure everyone else got theirs. “Together we rise, or together we fall.”

I dreamed of Emma my entire life. Even a world away from her, nothing could keep her melody, her soul from me. I traveled to Earth to find her and bring her back home with me. She is everything. Without a soul, a melody, how was I supposed to be with her? How was I supposed to help her? Support her? I do not even know who I am, only that I am not good enough for the only girl I have ever loved and ever wanted. When Emma leaves after restoring my soul to me and blocks our connection, I know it is up to me to solve all the problems that keep us apart. No mark, no knight, pirates, ocean storms, or ancient rules will keep me from the girl I love. I will travel to the ends of Terra for her, or any other galexy or planet to find a way for us. She will be mine and I will be hers.