Secret societies, supernatural beings and a forbidden love... Ariana can be said to be an average teenager with an average miserable adolescence. His parents are divorced, he lives with his emotionally unstable mother, while he despises his wealthy father with all his heart. She doesn't win popularity contests at school either, and while she attends a cool elite school, she works as a waitress to get gas for her ramshackle car. After that, the least thing she misses is supernatural beings invading her life - including Lucian, who never does half a job. But why was Ariana in the crosshairs, and who is behind the scenes? Lucian ends up siding with Ariana so they can go after the truth together and find out what's really going on. They can never be sure who is friend and who is enemy, maybe they can't even trust each other. But one thing is certain: Ari must stay alive. Julia Dippel's Izara series is the most popular German youth novel series in recent years, and The Eternal Fire won the award for the best first book in German after its publication.