When Shayde Gamic reaches her sixteenth birthday, a family secret is revealed to her that both explains and complicates her life. Things that have seemed strange all her life begin to make sense, and she embraces this new knowledge wholeheartedly. Her only regret is that this knowledge might threaten her burgeoning relationship with seventeen-year-old Kruise Wright. As their relationship develops, Shayde struggles to decide how to reveal her true nature, unaware that the effect of this revelation will be even more momentous and potentially devastating than she ever imagined. Can she fulfill the destiny bestowed on her by her ancestors, or will her love for Kruise ultimately destroy her?