15-year-old Orin's farm village faces a life-threatening drought. Orin's grandmother believes Orin to be a Singer, with strong magic that can bring back the rain. But the Magistrate has forbidden singing, and Singers are considered unstable and dangerous. Orin wants no part of the village's bloody history of Singing Wars, and she is afraid ... mostly of herself. But Orin must embrace her destiny in order to unravel the mystery of the treasure song and protect those she loves.