Thera has always known that she's different from her wonderful, loving human family. However, that would mean that she's one of the specials, beings of legends - but how could it be, when no human has seen them for hundreds of years? A visit from a masked stranger who warns her of danger and an attack on her village shatter the life that Thera knew. Forced to flee with her mother and her younger siblings, Thera finds temporary shelter in the special territory, in the home of a beautiful special named Raven. She needs more than temporary shelter, though. She needs a way to keep her family truly safe. The Magic's Source on the Special Continent, where children are taken at the age of eight and given a chance to ask for one particular kind of magic, might help with protection... but will Thera dare to seek it out and ask for some magic of her own? And if she does, what is the magic that she will really receive, and what new dangers will she find herself in?