You wake up on your eighteenth birthday in a police interrogation room, accused of murder, with no memory of how you got there. What do you do?

Wes Moretto doesn’t expect to spend his eighteenth birthday being framed for murder; however, when he realizes his supposed victim is a monster from another world, the stakes get much higher. Stuck in prison, Wes is given two choices: face an uphill and near-impossible legal battle, or leave his family behind for a military academy known as The Citadel.

Here, Wes joins a group called the Holenai: those who use a magic derived from the physical manifestations of their souls to combat demons from another dimension. At the Citadel, Wes is torn from his family and thrown into a world of monsters, fantasy, and new beginnings. But when Wes’s little sister is kidnapped by the same demons he has been enlisted to destroy, he realizes there may be more to his experience than mere coincidence.