Aurelia Schwartz has spent twenty-three years maintaining the equilibrium between her carefully curated human life and the magical one that she endures in secret. With a devoted best friend and top marks at a prestigious university, she has everything one could possibly want neatly within her grasp. Except, her gift of green magic has begun to fade, and if that wasn’t enough to upset the balance of her life, a fateful run-in with another power-hungry witch with a penchant for stolen magic has threatened to bring it all to ruin. Cast into an unexpected alliance with her dreadfully arrogant classmate, Aurelia goes into hiding among a peculiar family of witches, where she discovers that the secret to their safety requires breaking rules she has followed all her life: Make no promises, Tell no one what you are, and Never stay the night.

How do you preserve a dying civilization? While modern witches have taken matters into their own hands to ensure a fighting chance at survival for their children, their methods prove ineffective to the issue at large. For Gemma Eakley, her daughter's safety hinges on maintaining a suffocating proximity to the cottage they call home. For Aurelia Schwartz, preservation of the self is all that matters; and she is doing fine. Just fine. More than half a year has passed since the disappearance of Townsend's resident auger, and Teddy Ingram doesn't know what he believes. With Louisa Eakley in his care and a house that still reeks of its matriarch, he haunts the rural haven like one of its many spirits. After an unexpected visit from his beloved ex-rival where she reveals her mother, Meredith, has passed away, a ghost forms from the pages of her farewell—and gives him a message. One coven's efforts to reverse the looming extinction of witches involves resurrecting the dead, and Meredith will not be allowed to rest. Her old coven wants to know what secrets she took with her to the funeral pyre; did she have the key to fixing their botched attempts at necromancy? Before they can extract any answers from her, they'll need access to the other side. A reaper who wields to key, A girl incensed by grief, Bound by blood to the sins of their parents.