You can run away from home, but you can't run away from yourself.

Thomas seemingly has the ideal life; he is the heir to a prosperous and powerful shipping dynasty, and he gets top marks at his elite boarding school. But Thomas has always felt deeply at odds with himself... until he befriends his greatest rival, Charles. Their connection launches Thomas down a path that will change his life-and the world- forever.

Through brushes with magi, sirens, and gods, Thomas finds that the world is nothing like he imagined, that the lie he was born into may cost him his soul, and that the most terrifying force in the world might be love.