Sparrow believes she's coping with past events until Thorne is kidnapped by someone familiar, forcing her to return to White Lilies Manor. Accompanied by her mother, the assassin Nemo, she discovers the nearby village transforming into a Victorian nightmare and uncovers deeper truths about her past and those around her.
Fifteen-year-old Sparrow has lived with a mysterious host family in a Victorian manor for nearly a year. As Summer Solstice approaches, she discovers a chilling article about a murder of three teens connected to the manor. After surviving murder attempts, she and her friends must devise a plan to escape before the rite occurs.
After attending the event of the Eternal Magicians, Sparrow's mother Nemo is struggling with her past as an assassin for the magic army. When she and her daughter break into the archives of her former workplace, they make a discovery that changes everything they've ever believed in. Who really pulled the strings behind the Arcane Magic War's facades? What was their goal? And most importantly, who can they still trust, being on the brink of a second war where former hostilities seem to have no values anymore? The deeper they get entangled in Nemo's past, the clearer is it for Sparrow that nothing has ever been about her. Nor about Jasmine. Not even about Thorne.