Ayana just wants a normal life. A life-threatening accident as a child has left her with a mysterious, unwanted power. But at last she seems to be getting close to her goal: she's earned a place at university. Things are looking up. Right?
Nick isn't sure he's cut out for this paranormal existence anymore. With two successive jobs having gone sideways, he's having second thoughts, but when an old friend asks for a favour, he can't say no. Keeping an eye on a first-year student at Cambridge doesn't sound that dangerous. What could go wrong?
Ayana and Nick both reckoned without sinister forces who want Ayana, and who want Nick out of the waypermanently. On the run, they have to find a way to work together against enemies who are far more personal than either of them suspectsor risk bringing about the end of the world...