Aliyah Tsabo-Dawson: the world's most dangerous eight year-old. Burned by a terrorist's magic, gifted strange powers beyond measure and her temper tantrums can kill. Paul Tsabo: bureaucromancer, magical drug-dealer, desperate father. He's gone toe-to-toe with the government's conscription squads of brain-burned Unimancers, and he'll lie to anyone to keep Aliyah out of their hands. The king of New York: the mysterious power player hell-bent on capturing the two of them. A man packing a private army of illegal mancers. Paul's family is the key to keep the kings's crumbling empire afloat. But offering them paradise is the catalyst that inflames Aliyah's deadly rebellious streak.