Ever since her parents' bizarre murder, Cybil Starr has been stuck with her horrible grandmother. Now, on the cusp of her fifteenth birthday, Cybil has a new problem. Lately, new abilities have begun to manifest themselves in spectacular and terrifying ways. And worse, she can't control them. So when a vision shows her the theft of a hideous mirror, she’s not sure what to make of it. That is until a stranger saunters in with information linking the stolen artifact to Cybil's family. She learns that the "everyday" world is actually full of parathropes; inhuman and mythical creatures with powers straight out of the old legends. And her father was one of them. Now the prime suspect in the case, Cybil must use her unique knowledge of the crime to help find the real perpetrator or it's her head on the chopping block. And she has just three days to pull it off. No pressure...