In a present-day New York City bridal shop, Kate Valenteen refuses to marry Victor Strath, from a pretentious old-school Downton Abbey-style family led by the ninth earl of Strath.
Clara Krauss, since birth, was entrusted with a unique gift that made her special, almost mystical, a gift that would define her fate and the fate of everyone around her, a fate that would guide her, and her family through the time of turmoil that defined their world, a world tainted by evil, a world with the stench of death.
Raised on an island where magic is thought to be fictional, Kasiri never suspected it could be real until magic wielding soldiers burned her town looking for her, revealing that she is the heir to the throne of a nation where magic is common place.
