Alexandra Jennings already has an unusual life. Her parents are archeologists and they travel the world. Alex’s parents decide to send her to a boarding school, well more of a bored-ing school. They drop her off and head to the conveniently isolated and technology-less Siberia. After Alex is pushed into a fountain she wills herself to be anywhere else. She opens a door and falls straight into Medora, the sister world to earth with more advanced technology and people with powers called Gifts. There she immediately bumps into the mysterious Aven, who says she’s destined to help him. Alex doesn’t like this at all and is glad when friends Bear and Jordan come and “rescue” her from Aven. They take her to Akarnae, the academy for the Gifted. She is immediately enrolled, even though the headmaster is suspiciously gone and she happens to be the first person from our world, Freya, in thousands of years. Everything seems to be going just fine for Alex to be in an entirely different world. She has best friends, Jordan and Bear, and is in advanced classes. In fact the only thing that appears to be wrong is that she is in the Med-Ward almost weekly, but Aven lingers in her mind with the sense of danger and adventure.