ixteen-year-old Phoenix “Nix” Ashwell has spent his whole life looking for his soulmate. ​He’s also spent that life living a lie. After discovering his parents kidnapped him as an ​infant, he runs away to a town built inside an ancient crater to search for clues about his ​past. And, no, he’s totally not there to look for a boyfriend. That is, until he meets Max, a ​boy straight out of his dreams. Okay, fine, he’s definitely there for a boyfriend.

Desperate to be closer to Max, Nix takes a series of bizarre tests to get into the special ​program he’s part of. There’s just one problem: Max is magic. And, after unknowingly ​cheating on the tests, everyone thinks Nix is magic too—including a group of ex-students

whose attempts to reveal magic to the world put Max in danger. Now Nix has way more ​to worry about than figuring out if Max is flirting with him or just super nice. He’ll have to ​find his own magic to protect the guy he’s falling so hard for he’s seeing stars.

But then he learns his birth parents are hiding even more secrets than the ones he ran ​away from—one being that he was born to wield the most dangerous kind of magic. He’s ​faced with an impossible choice: risk the life of the boy he’s spent his whole life looking ​for or let him go to save him. What began as a quest to find where he belongs becomes ​a battle between the fire of who he is and the gravity of who he loves.