Kiara Floriant's life was perfectly normal until her fourteenth birthday. During the three months since then, she has been, as far as she knows, the only person on Earth able to read minds. So is with great relief that she meets Ethan Green, another mind reader like herself.

They quickly discover they both have unusual fourteenth birthday presents, given to them by their parents. Hers, a silver flower pendent set with a translucent white stone; his, a silver wild cat entwined around a black leather band, its body made of the same stone. Together, they try to find out more about...