No one who enters the Council chambers leaves it alive.

25,000 feet (7,620 meters) above the Gulf of Mexico floats Elementōrum Patriam, the eighth continent for the elementalist people, where the seven-member Council rules. Those born with the elementalist gene mutation are taken to Elementōrum Patriam, but if they can't control one of the seven elements, they are killed.

Nineteen-year-old Ethan Silverspoon knows the fate that awaits him when he doesn't pass his last Water element test. He walks willingly into the Council chambers and faces the seven. There's only one problem.

The Council can't kill him.

On Earth's surface, irate humans, sick of having their children taken from them, seize their opportunity to destroy the elementalists forever. The Council faces their biggest war since the separation of Pangea, and they need Ethan on their side.

Ethan must find his place among the Council, or they will fall together.