Josh knew that life in one of the Upper Cities wasn't going to be easy to get used to, but never did he plan on investigating a series of murders together with his roommate, Ayria Hawthorn. Three Senior Engineers have been killed in a way sacrilegious to everything logical reasoners hold dear - with Magik. In a City where Science and Magik exist in an uneasy truce, the smallest imbalance might send everything spiraling out of control, resulting in an all-out war between the two Guilds. Unless Ayria and Josh can find the Summoner responsible and turn him over to the Watch, chaos may soon reign unchecked in Old London...
Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is.
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A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche?
*2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller*
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Cover designed by April Alforque