At Edinburgh’s Royal College of Magic, ambition is a weapon. Valeria is devoted to her studies, dreaming of greatness so she can work beside the city’s mages—and see the brother she loves, taken into their ranks when they were both bairns. A love of studying sustains her, but loneliness drives her. 
 
Then she uncovers the dark truth at the College’s rotten heart and scholarship is no longer enough. To free her brother, Valeria must risk her future and her life, and venture into Edinburgh’s criminal underworld.

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