An untrained witch. An orphan. A teenager looking for her place in the world that’s a lot larger than she ever realized… Sixteen-year-old Mirella’s life changes forever when a werewolf sniffs her out one night. Turns out that all the weird incidents that happened over the years when Mirella got upset or angry is actually because she has magic. She’s a witch, and she’s been recruited for the Magical Hunters Academy. There’s no way she’ll ever turn that down, but then she learns that the school literally trains all sorts of magical beings to be hunters. No surprise there, but there are good paranormal creatures and evil ones. Ones who need to be hunted. Some who need to be slayed. When Mirella’s one human friend, a fellow orphan, and the orphanage is targeted by one of the evil paranormal creatures, Mirella is willing to do whatever it takes to hunt that bastard, but is she strong enough to handle this mission?

Orphan Mirella is more than a little distracted when her second year at the Magical Hunters Academy starts. Mirella isn't boy crazy. Since coming to the academy, she's bound and determined to research, study, and practice as much as she can. She will become a strong witch no matter the toll it takes on her mentally, physically, and emotionally. But ever since she learned her parents had been murdered, Mirella's been shaken to the core. Researching about them, delving into their past, trying to resurrect the cold case causes her to fall behind on her studies to the point of being threatened with expulsion. But Mirella can't stop, and while she may or may not be getting closer to find her parent's murderer, whichever paranormal creature it had been, she just might have caught the eye of someone else, someone evil with the power to vanquish not just her but the entire academy as well.

As Mirella enters her last year at Magical Hunters Academy, she has no idea that the trouble lying in wait might also make it the last year of her life. Everything finally seems to be going Mirella’s way. Her classes are amazing, she’s finally found her spot in the magical world, and she might finally be willing to say three little words to her boyfriend. There’s just one massive unknown—who or what murdered her parents. Is the entity alive, and if so, will it realize that eliminating the Sharpe bloodline requires killing again? Will Mirella survive her toughest test yet? Or will the executioner-in-training be the one executed?