Like every other Lodian teenager on Providence Island, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Cross is ready to party her summer away--until her father disappears. And rumors fly that he's a traitor. Plucked from her ordinary life to journey to an alternate reality to retrieve a priceless relic, Van bends--okay, breaks--the rules to find her father and prove his innocence. What she finds will test her courage and push her toward a destiny she neither expected nor wanted. Failure to rise to the challenge could destroy what's left of her family. And the people she was born to protect.