Overview

She changed the rules of magic. Now the old guard wants her dead. Three years after necromancer Margaret Winters revolutionized memory preservation, she's built a life she never thought possible: a wife, a home, and a network of keepers practicing magic with consent instead of cruelty. But when a dying child forces Maggie to attempt the impossible—integrating a human consciousness with an ancient, hungry entity—the secret Council of Keepers mobilizes against her. The trial that follows will determine more than Maggie's fate. It will decide whether magic evolves or stagnates, whether love can triumph over tradition, and whether a grieving six-year-old girl lives or dies.