Mages Are Born. Witches Are Made. And Hearts Fall Victim to the Darkest of All Spells.
Since the death of her parents, Lucinda Cross has survived on the streets of the Undercity, until a surprising invitation changes everything: she is to be taught at Vorgoth, the Academy of Darkest Arts. Here, young criminal witches and warlocks – the oppressed and persecuted of magical society – learn to form bonds with familiars that grant them magical abilities. Between deadly trials and violent fellow students, Luci comes into the sights of two men who are more dangerous than any black magic: the leader of the student elite, Devil Markov, and her professor Ezra Aerion, who knows more about her than he reveals. For her parents’ killers are closer than Luci suspects.
