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Humanity is dying. Banished from the Earth, our descendants eke out lives in orbital habitats and moon colonies–and look with longing on our former home. But Earth is deadly. Over hundreds of years, its oceans have transformed into an annihilating liquid entity–the Caul. Every living creature approaching its shores is irresistibly compelled to enter. . . and is never seen again.

Tabitha Greene knows more about magic than most. She might not be able to cast a workable spell to save her life, but she has read every magical tome and text in existence. Or so she thought. But then she hears of another book. A rare volume delineating an even rarer type of magic. A type of magic that just might be Tabitha’s real calling.

Lissy freut sich auf das wichtigste Ritual des Jahres: den Hexensprung. Doch mitten im Ritual geschieht das Undenkbare: Eine Hexe stürzt tot zu Boden. Ermordet. Alle Hexen trugen identische Roben und Masken. Jede von ihnen könnte die Täterin sein. Während Lissy verzweifelt nach Hinweisen sucht, stößt sie auf Spuren dunkler Magie, die seit Generationen verboten ist.

Rory's in a tight spot. Technically, she's in a lab refrigerator, hiding for her life. Who just stormed the primate facility with a gun, leaving the lab tech Andy shot through the neck, dead in a pool of his own blood? For Rory, survival consists of folding herself into the only hiding place available to live another day, affording her the opportunity to search for answers to the violence raging around her. And of course, the mystery of her missing research primate.