Alice never belonged anywhere. All her life, from dealing drugs to hiding in college to going through the motions of a hollow engagement, she's only been waiting for something to happen. Now her fiance is dead, magic is real, and she's being attacked by monsters in her hospital room. Altair, an uncannily familiar stranger, tells her that she is a sage. Since antiquity, eight sages have been guardians of the earth, passing on their power through...