Alex Woodwarn doesn’t have the best quality life. So when the only person who ever understood and appreciated her for who she truly was passes, leaving her with only a small flute he never taught her to play, she begins to think about running from her shadowed past.
Until she’s enrolled in Valerie, an academy filled with wonders and impossibilities she’d always dismissed as fantasies, in order for her parents to recline on a warm, sandy beach somewhere for half the year.
Armed with her first ever true friends, Alex realises there might be more to her than she ever could have realised – or remembered. With a nonsensical, ancient prophecy looming, and doors still locked leading to a complicated past, Alex tries to grope her way to a more certain future.
She's determined to forget what she wishes she couldn't remember and carve a new life - even if it means facing Aurelia and Ceil, two people bent on consuming the world in a forgotten darkness once again.