What if you found out you were not who you thought you were? What if the strange dreams you have had all your life were not dreams at all? What if it was revealed to you that magic was real and part of who you are, but went against everything you had been taught to believe in? When fifteen-year-old Ara Mallory learns magic exists just beneath the surface of her world, she must make a tough decision: embrace magic or deny the only part of herself that makes sense to her. Meanwhile Ara's dreams, which have always been odd, have become increasingly menacing and frightening. But worst of all the dreams begin to invade her waking life revealing an ominous threat to the world…. The greatest evil humankind, magic and non-magic alike, has ever known is about to be unleashed. Feeling a responsibility to the non-magical people around her, she reluctantly accepts magic into her life, finding it difficult to keep her identity secret from those close her. Then while away at summer camp, far from her deeply religious mother's ever-watchful eye, Ara begins her practical magic training. There Ara revels in learning magic and discovers through an obscure three-hundred-year-old prophecy that her destiny is deeply intertwined with the evil she had seen in the vision when she was still at school, while also discovering who she really is. She begins to question herself and to feel someone or something may be out to get her or perhaps to stop her… permanently.