Something is very wrong with the world of magic.

Thea Winthrop, Dougble Seventh and the world's newest and shiniest Elemental mage, is in her first year of studies at a prestigious university when she gets caught up again in a crisis in which she needs to take up the defense of her kind. This time, accompanied by Corey the Trickster and Nikola Tesla as well as her friends from the Last Ditch School who have all found theor own wings, Thea has to go back to the beginning of everything as she grapples with the deepest mysteries of her own existence... when she has to face down her nemesis, the Alphiri Queen, and rekindle the magic of humankind at its origins.