Elizabeth Esper should not be able to throw a person across a library; even if they did joke about her dead parents. Her fingertips should not burn the things she's touching when she has a seizure. A bloody wound should not heal almost instantly, with hardly a trace of it ever happening. These are not normal sixteen-year-old experiences. Moments after discovering the real power blooming inside her, Elizabeth and her best friend Heath are thrown from the familiarity of rural Vermont into the world of Mira, where magic is commonplace and wars have fractured the relations between humans and non-humans. As the first known arrivals from Earth in over half a century, Elizabeth and Heath must blend in at a prestigious academy of magic, straining to hide from the military force and a notorious Arc Knight hunting them down, but the academy's brutal combat teacher may be just as dangerous. In their search for a way home, Elizabeth discovers more truths inside her than mere magic, and that the academy is hiding dark secrets of its own.