Magic divides them. Brotherhood binds them.

Keelan and Declan Rea were orphaned as boys and raised by the Mages in the Guild, a world where magic determines status and power.

While Keelan wields the rare Gift of Truthreading, Declan was born without magic, leaving him to carve out a place for himself in a society that reveres the Gifted and dismisses the rest.

At sixteen, Keelan joins the Guard to become an investigator, while Declan remains behind at the Guild, struggling to find his own path and wrestling with resentments that both bind and divide them. New questions awaken when Declan stumbles onto a pair of boys sharing an intimate moment.