Can she keep what is hers? Seventeen-year-old Mirabilia Rector spends her days studying magic, combat training, and trying to unravel her mother's mysterious message about a man named Adrian. She has finally convinced her guardian, Armageddon, to train her for missions with the Irregulars, the elite magical law enforcement group based at Castle Laurus. Lia has a new boyfriend and once her best friend Peter comes home, she couldn't be happier. Then a message arrives, calling up the darkness she carries inside. Now she has to find a way to defeat her most hated enemy, Oberon Taine, before she loses everything. Again.