Christine Crown has a long list of problems in her life. Her father just died, she has to go live with her mother who she hasn't seen in years, she's uneducated in the ways of the wizard, she has to live in a dorm with an arrogant fool, love-sick girl, and a man who keeps telling her how delicious she looks, and she's just agreed to the immature bet that she can tough out living in the academy her mother runs for more than a month with a vampire who seems to be obsessed with making her his pet. And to top it all off, her blood is poisonous to him! Why is it all so bad? For a girl who was so wrapped up in her books, being thrown into the adolescent chaos of private school life with immature magic and a blackmailing vampire is an absolute nightmare Christine isn't sure she can handle. Maybe, if she's lucky, a pirate godfather will come and tell her how to get away from her destiny.