No one believed her when she told them her cousin had disappeared. He was a young man who went to boarding school and had his own apartment. Why would he want to come home for the holidays? But Aster knew the truth. Her closest family, her best friend, had gone missing and she will find out what happened to him.

Aided by a mysterious person she knows only by the name Calix and Gideon's reluctant best friend, she cuts her hair and goes undercover at Neptune Boy's Academy, one of the five most prestigious academies in all of Nevaeh. It was the last place Gideon had been and the starting point of her investigation.