This version is the out-of-print original version of the work. The new version with an updated cover is now available and is the official book that is book one of the Summoned Series. Hadley Weston reunites with her secret love interest, Fitz MacGregor, in Paris, defying orders from governing officials that they remain apart. When they are mysteriously followed, Fitz must reveal an unbelievable he’s a witch, and so is Hadley. While she cultivates her newfound power, Hadley partners with Fitz to solve a family mystery originating during seventeenth century witch trials in Scotland. When evidence leads them to a witch raising an army in a foreign world, Hadley and Fitz are forced to make a crucial align themselves with a government they distrust or allow this foreign power to utilize Fitz's ancestral magic to destroy peace with humankind.

Just a few months ago, Hadley Weston was a PR consultant looking to reunite with her estranged lover, Fitz MacGregor. Now, Hadley has become a powerful witch and is leading a crusade to stop Dr. Lorenzo Belmonte from taking over human and witchkind. And they’ll have to step into the alternate universe of Opimae to do it. When the Crusaders get to Opimae, they’re met with a magical world where witches roam free, faeries linger in the woods, and dragons soar the night sky. But things in Opimae are not as they seem. Between mistrusting witchkind governments, kidnapping attempts, and a possible spy in their ranks, Hadley and Fitz must find a way to win over Opimae’s rulers, keep their team on track, and stop Lorenzo before he takes over completely. In this breathtaking sequel to Summoned, M.B. Thurman leads her readers into an enticing new world full of magic, love, and secrets. For fans of the All Souls trilogy and The Magicians.

In November 1662, Esther MacGregor was executed as part of the Forfar Witch Trials. She died wearing a ring infused with her family’s powers. Then the ring vanished. Nearly 350 years later, Hadley Weston and Fitz MacGregor have just been kicked off the crusade against Lorenzo Belmonte, a powerful witch intent on using the ring’s magic for his own benefit. Desperate to recover the family heirloom that now threatens witchkind, Hadley and Fitz journey across time back to where it all began: Forfar, Scotland, 1662. But they quickly learn that the past might be even more dangerous than the present. Through suspicious villagers, reticent governments, wary ancestors, and more, Hadley and Fitz must work together to retrieve the ring that might destroy their world and to survive the rampant witch hunts that are underway. But as Esther’s execution date looms near and they grow closer to Fitz’s ancestor, Hadley must make her most difficult decision yet: will she let time take its natural course or will she risk angering Fate to chart a new way forward? Author M.B. Thurman weaves a magical tale of love and sisterhood across time and space in the exhilarating third installment in the Summoned Series.