Ever since she discovered her affinity for magic seventeen-year-old Anouk has been desperate to become a witch. It's the only way to save her friends who like Anouk are beasties: animals enchanted into humans. But unlike Anouk the other beasties didn't make it out of the battle at Mont?limar in one piece.
With her friends now trapped in their animal forms Anouk is forced into a sinister deal involving a political marriage with her sworn enemy a wicked plot to overthrow London's fiercest coven of witches and a deadly trial of fire to become a witch. The price for power has always been steep in the world of the Haute. Now it will cost Anouk everything.
