When Vivienne Raji was 10, she was almost drowned by one of her father's adversaries. From then on, she decided to make herself stronger and not to show her true self to anyone, except her family, until her senior year of high school. Little Vivienne lost the remainder of her childhood to training and thinking about all the ways the world is beautiful, but also wrong.

She determined that she would build muscle and learn how to defend herself at the same time as learning many languages and becoming even more intelligent. Vivienne also took weeks to gain the courage to finally learn to swim after dealing with traumatic memories.

Little did she know that the Most Powerful was watching her that night, along with the Spirits and the Lion, and they all decided that she would be the one to receive the ability that had been waiting for her since the beginning of time: the Lion's Gift.

Many children around the world have gone through trauma and built themselves up from nothing, but something is different about Vivienne. Even the most resilient of those children quit a few times, slow down, or take a break. Vivienne did none of that, even though the urge to quit was stronger with her, since she is living a privileged life. In fact, every time she even thought of quitting she would push herself faster and harder and actually made it.

She grows up cautious and wary, slowly losing herself to her masks. She can't act relaxed even around her parents, only her brother, the last person to know her for who she truly is. When she has matured, boys ask her out but all she does is push them away, wary of everyone and everything.

When someone unexpectedly shows up to her house on the night of her 16th birthday, things go wrong and Vivienne ends up with power that she never knew she needed to separate from her masks.

She finds whole new realms, and beautiful things in herself and others, along with new dangers, friends, enemies, and quests to save not only the human realm, but the creature one as well.