One day I’m creating rainbow-hued hair at a salon in sunny Florida, and the next I’m getting tossed into prison with no idea why. Here, there is no sunlight. No answers. But there are men with fangs, women with wings… and a cruel doctor who puts me through test after test, trying to determine what I am. I always thought I was an ordinary girl until a scuffle in the jailhouse ends with blood on my hands and a decapitated head at my feet. Now they say I’m special, dangerous, and that I need to be controlled. I am the last of my kind, and I have the power to change the world. Everyone fears me, loathes me, or wants to use me. The only person who doesn’t is the handsome guard who always seems eager to bend the rules for me… but will he also help me escape?

Where there is light, there is also shadow. Where there is love, there is also hate. And where there is me, there is also danger. A prisoner no more, I'm now an honored guest at a new facility run by a man who claims to be my long-lost father. Like me, he can bend light and shadows, harnessing their magic to do impossible things. But while he is kind to me, he keeps other stolen supernaturals locked in cages. He and his guards torture them until they break. The man I love is trapped here, too, except now he looks at me with hatred burning in his eyes. I want to tell him the truth, to share my plans to stage a coup and rescue everyone, but a binding spell prevents me from speaking out against my father or his facility. Left with no allies, I need to challenge this new enemy by myself… But will my mere weeks of training be enough to overcome his lifetime of mastery?

My life is no longer my own, and the only way to escape my bonds is to defeat the one who first placed them on me. But am I strong enough? When a former ally accosts me in what was meant to be a safe haven, I know that time is up. He takes me to a secret encampment of paranormal beings hidden within the Alaskan wilderness to bide my time, preparing for what is to come. Victory against our shared foe is unlikely… until I discover the one thing I was never supposed to find. This newest weapon could very well destroy me, but it’s one I must wield if I am to save the supernatural world from destruction. One way or another, this ends now.