When Sadie Wren crosses a shimmering portal into the fae realm, she becomes the first human ever admitted to the University of Magical Studies - a place of beauty, danger, and secrets that hum beneath every spell. Among rival Courts and unreadable princes, she must learn to control a magic that shouldn't exist and survive a world built on illusion. But the deeper she studies, the more the mirrors whisper, and the more she suspects that nothing in Averiel - not power, not friendship, not even herself - is what it seems. Because some reflections remember what the world wants to forget.

He was never looking for rescue. Seth Alvarez survives by staying invisible, drifting through life from one job to another just to make ends meet for his sick mom. His only rule is to keep his head down and his mouth shut. But his silence fails him when he stammers a clumsy greeting and draws the attention of Cali, a cold-blooded enigma tied to the syndicate, who offers him a job he can't refuse. The cost of a tempting contract. Plunged into her world of whispered threats and intoxicating deception, Seth walks the thin line between gratitude and fear. Now, the greatest threat comes from within: a sharp, undeniable attraction he doesn't dare name.