Some wounds never heal. In the world of Echela, to have a Scar is to be changed–and to be changed is to be loathed. Scarbearers forever carry the power of the beast that wounded them, and with it the prejudice and hate of a world that fears magic.

Cendra Faraday was orphaned as an infant, but against all odds she enjoyed a happy life with her adopted mother. Happy, that is, until her quiet life was upended by the manifestation of the dreaded Scar. Exiled from the only world she had ever known, how would she cope?  When who you are is at odds with who you were, who will you become?