Ever since she discovered her affinity for magic, seventeen-year-old Anouk has been desperate to become a witch. It’s the only way to save lots of her friends who, like Anouk, are beasties: pets enchanted into humans. But unlike Anouk, the various other beasties didn’t make it out of the fight at Montelimar in one piece.

With her friends now trapped within their animal forms, Anouk is forced right into a sinister deal involving a political marriage with her sworn enemy, a wicked plot to overthrow London’s fiercest coven of witches, and a deadly trial of fire to become witch. The purchase price for power is definitely steep in the world of the Haute. Right now, it will cost Anouk everything.