Corbin, a powerful shapeshifting young mage, was just beginning to learn to flex and harness his magical powers. When he hears that a young witch, who didn't know that her strangeness was due to magic, had run away for fear of being institutionalized for a second time, he knows that he has to help his friends find her so that she can learn to celebrate what makes her different rather than fear it.

What he doesn't know is that finding her would snowball him into a position where he would again feel obligated to his scheming former mentor, Max Grobian. Nor does he know that Max would, once more, try to manipulate him into betraying his daughter Lorelei, a girl Corbin feels heart-bound to, yet fears to fully love.