It's holiday time at Convocation Academy, but best friends Han and Iliana are finding it hard to celebrate. As a familiar, Iliana is facing her assignment to a life of servitude to a wizard, very soon. And Han… despite being tested by the oracle daily, he is still uncategorized. As Iliana and Han face being separated forever, they at last find the courage-or desperation-to break the rules and acknowledge their deeper feelings for each other. But it will take more than true love to save them from the laws of the Convocation…