Isabela Fuerte flees her country only to find herself bound to a family that wants to use her for being a spell-caster. To make matters worse, instead of trying to find a way to escape, she finds herself drawn to Thomas, the older son.

Thomas Grahm knows that his duty as a rune-writer means that he is supposed to protect against spell-caster magic. But Isabela is not the monster he was led to believe… and the rune on his chest keeps reacting whenever she’s near, making him ask the question:

Is it wrong to have a different kind of magic?