Rieka Theyacker is a teenager living in eclectic Gasville, a city of contradictions within a world of mystery and adventure. When Rieka experiences a disturbing event, it rocks this world and forces her family to move back to the town of Varkana. Rieka welcomes this change, but a dark force threatens her family. Beneath her powerful grandmother's roof Rieka will begin to come into her own. Anyone Rieka meets along the way might not be what they seem and the rules in Varkana are not the same as Gasville. Add to that a troublemaking boy that won't stop popping up in Rieka's path, two mischievious cousins, and a father who doesn't seem to know how to live in Varkana, and Rieka has her hands full. But there is a more sinister danger too, a danger that comes to those with gifts...