Magic isn't hidden. It's controlled.

 

Margot has spent her life knowing exactly what the world thinks she is: dangerous.

 

In a modern society where magic is monitored, classified and controlled, survival means understanding the rules—and knowing when to disappear between them. Margot has become very good at both.

 

But when the fragile life she's built begins to unravel, she is pulled deeper into a world of government power, dangerous loyalties and people whose motives refuse to divide neatly into good and bad.

 

The more Margot learns, the harder it becomes to tell whether she's escaping the system, becoming part of it, or discovering just how much of what she believed was never true in the first place.

 

Because power always has consequences.

And somehow, in a world of havoc, there is always something left to burn.

 

Adult Speculative Fantasy · Querying