Following a nuclear fallout, magik starts to surface in the world again. The leader of the only surviving city in North America, Angel, has taken her people prisoner. Kara McKenzie, is a sixteen-year-old girl living in Yorklyn City. She is on the fast track to becoming a nuclear scientist. When she starts hanging out with her old friends, Ryan and Killian, things begin to get weird. She starts getting headaches she can't explain, and her world is turned upside down when Angel starts the manhunt for a magik who has infiltrated the city. People start getting executed without reason, and darkness befalls them all. When Kara finds out a dark secret about her new best friends, she must make a choice. One that could possibly disrupt the future of the world. Should she turn them in for illegal magik or help them escape?