Clara’s to learn magic tomorrow. Finally, she’ll begin to understand who and what she is. A witch. A magician. Something in between the two, something new. No one’s ever been able to access magic like she does. But tomorrow doesn’t come. The merworld claims Clara instead. There’s only one person that can save her from the merworld’s devious illusions. But first he has to return from the edge of death, and even then he may not get either of them out. That’s not even the worst of their problems. An immortal count, with a heart fueled by darkness and death, intends to take more from them than the merworld does, and he has centuries’ worth of power to make it happen.