Future Japan, and an Altered girl on the run from the mafia. Sixteen-year-old Lotus was once fascinated by the portal legend her dad told: of a world where people like her (the Altered Ones) live freely. But when she's kidnapped by the mafia and forced to use her gift of Healing to make them a large profit, survival is all she can think of-that, and the new deaf guard with a wing growing out his back who watches her every move.But when the boss's son is mortally wounded, Lotus seizes her chance at escape and recalls the legend-and the clue left behind in her family heirloom. As she flees the mafia, can she convince her stoic, winged guard not to turn her in but help search for a mythical portal that may not exist? Especially when a notorious bounty hunter is on her trail, determined to bring her back dead or alive?
