Gemma Alexandra Pointe is not a fitting name for a warrior, a vigilante, or a mystic. One would never hear the name and assume it belongs to a powerful person, like an influential politician or religious leader. And it certainly doesn't sound like the name of a "supernatural"-an angel, a mermaid, or a fairy godmother. But that's what I am: a supernatural. In the first of Karen Seymour's epic Pactem Orbis Legends, there are no heroes or saviors. There is only Gemma, an introspective college student, and the new reality she's forced to face when a mysterious, green-eyed stranger shares a secret: She's an Essen, like him. Descended from elementals, and soon-to-be gifted-on her twenty-first birthday-with superpowers. But Malakai Zonn also believes she's "the Link," prophesized to possess a weapon powerful enough to destroy the Essen's mortal enemies, spirit-beings known as the Dothen. Reluctant to participate in a supernatural war and desperate to preserve the life she knows, Gemma must choose: normal or supernatural, safety or greatness, love or duty. Her choices are as complicated as they are permanent, and in order to thwart evil, the secrets of the past-and Gemma's true purpose-must be unearthed.