On a grey coastal holiday with her family, twenty-year-old Melissa Thames doesn’t expect much excitement - that is, before she goes into a dusty bookshop and buys a blank diary that turns out to be the most powerful book of black magic in existence. Her life turns upside down and inside out… She’s kidnapped by a battle witch and her bodyguard, who claim she needs protection. To prove their point, a power-hungry warlock makes a devastating attempt on her life. Melissa is left with no choice but to run. Her guardians stand between her and certain death... Thrown into a world of witchcraft, pursued by sorcerers, and with the threat of a necromancer to boot, Melissa has to figure out: “Why me?”

Two months after the catastrophic events that changed Melissa’s life, Cheri calls for help. Appealing to Melissa’s kind nature, Cheri informs her of her newest mission: to travel to the archaic world of necromancers, answering their call for aid. With the promise of dragons, commonplace sorcery and chivalrous Warriors, how could Melissa refuse? The only problem is that she will enter Anarch’s domain owing him a debt. How long will it be before he calls in his favour? Her magical abilities are pushed to the limits, the darkness she has fought to supress comes to the forefront and threatens to permanently corrupt her. Not only does she have to deal with the taint of darkness, but she makes a soul altering discovery that rocks her very being and changes her in a way there is no coming back from.