After a traumatic death by fire, 11-year-old Cera is violently reborn into Reverie, a gritty world of magic and war. To her horror, she's told her only path to survival is to master the very element that killed her.

Unwillingly appointed as a commander for the embattled Ignis Clan, Cera must lead a volatile team of powerful but dysfunctional warriors against the ruthless witch Krysta and her sadistic army. With her mentor kidnapped, a traitor in their midst, and her own trauma threatening to consume her, Cera must confront her deepest fears to protect her new, flawed reality before it's devoured by the flames of a war she was never meant to fight.