Sixteen-year-old Emma Briar feels like a freak when baby blue lines scrape down her shoulder blades. She refuses to look at the aching marks, but they won't be ignored. Slowly spreading, slowly darkening, they form an embarrassing tattoo that she struggles to hide. She despises them ... until meeting him. First, the weird gray lines carve into Conley Hughes's back. Then he shoots up several inches and puts on forty pounds of muscle - overnight. He's never felt more alone working out in public to explain away the added bulk. Out for a jog one day, the sight of a beautiful girl sprinting...

Wings, witches, wayward friends, and weird parents - Emma Briar has been put through the wringer. Bombarded with fresh heartache over her boyfriend Conley's unusual dilemma, she spends every waking moment seeking answers from a confusing and elusive supernatural underground. Snags in Emma's quest chip away at her armor as weeks become months and months become a battle to simply stay afloat. Creatures in the murky depths are counting on this ... creatures that have planned something more atrocious than Emma could ever imagine. How much can be taken from someone before they break? In the...