"Want to know what's worse than being torn away from everything you knew? Try finding out that everything you knew was a lie.
Yeah. That's where I'm at.
Turns out there's a lot I didn't know. About myself. My parents. Hell, about everything.
It seems like for every answer I find, I'm handed two new questions—ones even more difficult to unravel than the last.
I'm done with secrets. Finished with lies. It's time for some damned truth for once. I'm crossing my fingers and toes me and the guys will find just that at my father's summer home in Spain—La Casa Rosa. Martin said we might in the letter he left for me. He said other things, too—things I wish I could forget . . .
But La Casa Rosa isn't what we expected. Either we've finally stumbled onto a bit of fortune, or what we've found will lead us all to a fate far worse than death."
"No matter what I say, both the Arcane Authorities and the Arcane Council deny any witch involvement in the kidnapping and slaughter of the shifters and vampires.
It's total bullsh*t. I know what I saw, and I'll prove it.
But just when I think I'm onto something—disaster strikes. A student is found dead on Academy grounds. Drained of blood. A gnarly bite mark in her neck.
Naturally, all fingers point to my familiars. I could understand why they'd be obvious suspects; except they were with me when it happened. And it couldn't have been the dangerously sexy vamp who's been visiting me after dark, either right?
Draven wouldn't do that. I'm sure of it.
So, then who? Why?
One thing becomes terrifyingly clear after the second body is found—the longer we take to figure it out—the more students will wind up dead."
"The hallowed halls of Arcane Arts Academy are no place for an orphan who peddles illegal potions and lives out of a caravan . . . and yet here I am.
After my volatile magic nearly killed a bunch of mortals, I thought for sure I'd be carted off to Kalzir prison, but they sent me here instead. Gave me shackles under the guise of mercy for my crimes.
As if that wasn't bad enough, there are wolf shifters in the woods on campus, secrets hidden in the walls, and a hot teacher who may or may not want me as much as I want him.
But dangerous distractions aside, I'm about to find out that some secrets have claws and if I'm not careful, these ones will swallow me whole."
"Finding out I'm descended from royalty should have been like winning the lottery. Except I got all of the renown and none of the spoils.
That's what it means to be related to the dark prince.
Still reeling, I throw myself into uncovering more about my dark heritage. Meanwhile, Cal and Adrian try to solve a mystery of their own. Shifters from other packs are going missing . . . and all the evidence points to witches.
Elias says it isn't my problem, but he's wrong. And when my worst fear is realized, I set off on a risky crusade to make it right. What I will encounter along the way is more terrifying than I ever could've imagined and could shake the foundation of the witching world forever."
