Violet is just a girl with a dark past trying to get by, while Zane is just a normal business man with good intentions. Well, that's as it seems anyway.

Angel Foster doesn't like taking risks, but she's flat broke and has no choice but to move into a strange country house, in a strange town called Charming with no cell service, in the middle of nowhere. Her estranged Aunt Hilde, who died brutally in a string of violent animal attacks, left it to her, and with it comes with a hot if only slightly annoying maintenance man who lives in the back yard. The catch is she has to take up her aunt's old job, which no one can quite explain, except for the beneficiary who is a weird hermit in the woods who explains there is more to Charming than meets the eye. The animal attacks weren't quite as animalistic as the public is led to believe, they were done by something more sinister. Something not of their world. Then shady but hot 'agents' show up on her new doorstep and it seems that there is more to the entire world than what Angel thought there was.

Isolde knows that her introduction to the marriage market is long overdue. She's terrified of the Lordlings that pour into her home as her parents, the King and Queen of Solenne, welcome them with open arms. She simply avoids duty in favor of savoring the time she has left before her inevitable loveless marriage cages her for the rest of her life. While she hides in secret passages and fights the consequences of her deepest secret she finds her path crossing repeatedly with the newly appointed Master of Potions. Is he her key to distraction, a new friend to be ripped away from, or her social ruin? Corvin of Cloverfield is lowborn and entrenching himself in the most terrifying thing he can imagine. Court politics. He doesn't know the first thing about pretending to act noble except that he must. Not. Waver. Soon after his appointment, he finds his position is much more morally questionable than he ever imagined. Worse than that the lowborn children in the castle are coming down with deathly fevers, and he can't figure out the cause. Then, he spots Princess Isolde standing on the edge of the Pigeon Tower looking as if she might jump.