Welcome to the University, where an ancient magic secures the right of elite society the Turnbull Club to rule - in exchange for a sacrifice to the hidden, magical world of the Night City ...Ambitious student heart surgeon Venetia Kent moves through the British social season like the scalpel that defines her work: precise, merciless, brilliant. Ballrooms and racecourses and shooting parties hide her real purpose: avenging the death of her friend Julia at the hands of the privileged Turnbull Club. The Turnbulls have accrued power and privilege through terrible bargains with the magical powers of the shadowy Night City. But the magic is consuming Venetia too - and the woman she loves has been stealing it from her all along. What price vengeance now?
Some hearts are taken. Some are earned. Some are eaten.