Life is hard. It’s a fact that Lapis is all too familiar with and one he wishes he didn’t understand. By the time he’s almost 18 and living with a certain magic performer he truly believes that his life is destined to be horrible. Unknown to him however is that his life is about to change in a rather strange way and to his horror, all of the secrets and horrors from the past he’s fought so hard to hide are suddenly beginning to surface.