"Annamarie Kavesta is a lonely girl in a big world, and no one gives a damn. Not her parents, and not the replacements either."

In a time of which the magic of old has been forgotten, the world grows restless in a conflict hidden beneath the veneer of stable society.

After having jumped from home to home, Annamarie suddenly finds herself tossed back into the matters of her own blood. Thrown into this world she never thought possible, Annamarie comes equipped with only one tool to defend herself: she can read minds.

With the weight of her name on her back, she finds that she must struggle in order to find her place at a school of meritocratic elites, Kolvier. The secrets of the world all hide behind locked doors at the top of the societal order, and every student of Kolvier High seems determined to unlock them. Magic is real, and those organizations that had grown to understand it control the world.

And Annamarie just wants to make a friend in the midst of all that, somehow.