Troy Flarehill has just escaped from Varmer's palace but that is the least of his worries. His sister, Helen, is dead and his best friend, Dahlia, is dying too. His only hope to save her, is to find Sapphire, a healer in Paris. To do that, he needs to put trust into his shadow-travelling powers and also, Kayla, a necromancer, whom he is beginning to doubt. Even if he can save Dahlia, both magicians are beginning to have doubts about whom they can trust, even their closest friends: Luna, Cedric and Kayla...
Sylvie just wants to study alchemy and live a peaceful life among the humans, but an encounter with a strange man from her family's past sets her on a path where the young elf will have to extract secrets from her mother that she was never meant to know. Her best friend Rayna accompanies her on her adventures in both the real world and the realm of the fey, and they will work to hone their craft in the magic arts, avoid meeting an untimely end, and grow closer to each other...
These are the adventures of an elf and human in a modern fantasy world, full of magic, monsters both physical and psychological, and bumbling queerness.