Morgan is the perfect girl. Perfect grades and perfect face but underneath it all, she is cruel and cold-hearted. Morgan is only out to get as much for herself as possible and in the end she’ll chose the highest bidder.
Nix is something special. Since his childhood he has been able to see a light around a person before they were about to die. Depending on the intensity of the light, he could tell how long they had left in the world. Because of this, he has spent a large portion of his life running from the people he cared about. Along the way, he picked up a drug habit to keep the lights dulled and to try to be as normal as possible.
Ondine is a girl that seems to have it all. Not perfect like Morgan, who just happens to be intensely jealous of her, but with her dark skin and violet eyes she is a girl that just seems to have something extraordinary about her. When her parents move away for a year, leaving her in her hometown of Portland to finish out her senior year, Ondine throws a party to end all parties, where her life is changed forever.
There the three that have so little in common come together. What they’ve been feeling for so long, the changes in their bodies and minds, is realized. A mysterious boy by the name of Moth tells the three to come to a huge rave, The Ring of Fire, where they will learn the truth about themselves. Nix, who has been running for so long, is told to bring Ondine who is easily lost; while Morgan, headstrong, finds her own way there.
But the Ring of Fire isn’t what any of them expect. The truths that they learn, the things about themselves that they come to realize are hard for them to swallow. Ondine flat out denies that she could be something other than human. But for Nix, who has been challenged for so long by the rings of light, is relieved that there is an explanation and that maybe, finally he can stop running. Morgan is the only member of the small group to embrace the idea wholeheartedly.
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