Emmaline "Emma" Reed is an unusual young woman, troubled beyond normal reckoning. A mathematical progeny with eidetic memory, Emma was orphaned at four when her parents died horribly in a fiery car crash while Emma was sitting in the back seat. Why she escaped unscathed is just one of the questions that haunt her as she enters her first year at Chapman College, a mysteriously ethereal university where her late parents were employed as professors at the time of their death. Steeped in gothic history and mystical lore, Chapman is where Emma finds herself drawn to Michael and Luce, a set of identical brothers as stunning as they are mysterious, each with personalities as different as their faces are alike. The brothers wreak havoc in her life, detonating a chain of events that uncovers a fascinating and terrifying celestial world awash in combat, betrayal, love, pain and murder. In the end, Emma not only learns the answers to the questions that haunted her, but wonders if she should have