Fire fears nothing. And Elaia is about to show her world that she doesn't, either. Like the rest of her kind, fire nymph Elaia is bound to her homeland, a forest whose borders were closed centuries earlier in a peace agreement between the humans and the enchanted creatures of the Terrestrial Realm. But her heart is as restless as the flames she casts, and she secretly yearns to defy that order. When a mysterious threat creeps into the forest, an invisible beast that leaves a trail of death in its wake, Elaia is determined to fight back and protect her people. But first she must learn what the beast is … and the answers lie beyond the borders of her land. Defeating this evil means she'll have to go outside the rules, but she'll do anything to find the answers she seeks-even if leaving her homeland means not only breaking the law, but risking her own life.