<p>Ever since she discovered her affinity for magic seventeen-year-old Anouk has been desperate to become a witch. It's the only way to save her friends who like Anouk are beasties: animals enchanted into humans. But unlike Anouk the other beasties didn't make it out of the battle at Montélimar in one piece.</p><p>With her friends now trapped in their animal forms Anouk is forced into a sinister deal involving a political marriage with her sworn enemy a wicked plot to overthrow London's fiercest coven of witches and a deadly trial of fire to become a witch. The price for power has always been steep in the world of the Haute. Now it will cost Anouk everything.</p>