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Dahlia Blackburne is a failing bookstore keeper and Tarot reader who relies on deductive reasoning—not magic—to cast her fortunes. When a stranger calling himself the Meister walks into her shop and offers three times her normal rate for a reading, Dahlia’s curiosity, and her growing debts, compel Dahlia to accept.

 But the reading reveals that the Meister has a far more dangerous proposition: infiltrate Foresyth Conservatory, an elite occult arts graduate school, and investigate the alleged suicide of brilliant but troubled student and puzzle maker, Julian Earhardt.

Desperate to care for her ailing mother after her father’s recent passing, Dahlia agrees to investigate Julian’s death. Inside Foresyth’s candlelit halls and ivy-choked towers, Dahlia finds the school’s ruthless academic “Circle”—a cadre of students who double as suspects obsessed with creating art that doesn’t merely imitate life, but transcends it. What Dahlia doesn’t know is that the other students are there to pay off their own form of debts, and her father’s history is more intertwined with the seductive currents of Foresyth than Dahlia could have imagined.

As the line between performance and passion blurs, Dahlia must confront the truth about Julian, the Conservatory, and a dangerous form of magic that isn’t taught—but inherited.

 The cards at Foresyth have already been dealt. Now it’s time for Dahlia to play her hand.