The ability to draw power from the elements has been lost for centuries.But one family has been guarding a secret for seven generations...Arian prefers the...

The ability to draw power from the elements has been lost for centuries.

But one family has been guarding a secret for seven generations...

Arian prefers the quiet safety of her Oakhaven bookstore, a cup of tea, and the company of her best friend to the chaos and idiocy of high school. But when a witty, banter-slinging stranger breezes into her life and casually lets drop that he is close friends with the author of the dark, witchy romantasy novels she loves, she learns there is more truth in them than she'd ever realized. The world of "Normans and Normas" she's always known is just a thin veil over a global war against the shadows.

Thrust into the lethal training grounds of The Academy, Arian must trade her books for rune-inscribed pistols and come to terms with the knowledge that her sensible-shoe-wearing, galette-baking mother had a pile of secrets that would literally fill a grimoire.

In a world where witches risk their lives to protect the Norms, Arian must make a choice: will she return to the world of fiction she loved so much, or will she face the truth and learn to fight the darkness?