Summerbird is an inept seer; why try to deny it? She’s spent her life hiding her broken magic in a realm where magic is a death-crime. When a tiny griffin, a being from the magical realm of her birth, appears in her cottage, she panics. She doesn't want to help him; she wants him to leave! While his story is intriguing, Summerbird wonders if this means she'll finally be able to leave this wretched land. The griffin won't say, but he does have an alluring lure to a young woman desperate to find her lost life—Would you like to learn your magic?