Ben is itching to get to Julia’s party, and Christina is sitting on a bench freezing in the bitter cold, hoping to find a ride home.  Neither make it.  Instead, they both stumble through a portal and wake up in an alternate world where Ben’s light skin is a curse and Christina’s dark complexion marks her as a prophet.  It is a world with a disturbing past, and one where a powerful talisman has been lost for centuries… Until Ben scoops it up on a remote forest floor. 

Half a continent away, Jari is looking forward to her sixteenth birthday, when Christina’s sudden appearance ignites a war that forces her to flee for her life to protect a powerful family heirloom.

Desperate to escape the senseless violence erupting around them, all three teenagers embark on perilous journeys, while wrestling with a power and responsibility they neither asked for nor wanted. In the end, Ben, Christina, and Jari must confront their own personal demons, with the destiny of a troubled land hanging in the balance.