Marlow Briggs has made a name for herself as the best godsdamn cursebreaker in Caraza City, but no matter how many cases she solves, she is still haunted by the t mystery of her mother's disappearance.
When Adrius Falcrest, Marlow's old friend and scion of one of Caraza's most affluent spell-making families, asks her to help break a life-threatening curse, Marlow wants nothing to do with the boy who spurned her a year ago.
But a new lead in her mother's case makes Marlow realize that the only way to get the answers she desperately seeks is to help Adrius and return to Evergarden society- even if it means suffering through a fake love affair with him to avoid drawing suspicion from the conniving Five Families.
