Seventeen year old Emma Quinn has seizures and hair like the freaking Bride of Frankenstein, the result of a near fatal car accident when she was younger. But worse, is her family's history of insanity, and the fear she may inherit it next. Strange things are happening and her life begins to unravel after she runs into the striking Adam Owens. With scars that rival her own, he shakes her to her core, but it isn't long before she discovers the truth: Emma's half human, half tree spirit, a descendant of the Tree of Life, who harbors the essence of life, a power only reaching its full potential when she turns eighteen & if she can survive that long. Adam has the ability to strip Emma of the essence with a kiss. And with the planet on the brink of destruction, Emma's gamble on love being more powerful than the forces of nature, may not only destroy her but end all life on earth.