Wren Valere and her partner Sergei are hired to track down a missing - and deadly - parchment, getting out of New York City, with its rising tensions between human Talent and the fatae, seems like a really good idea. The problem is, their employer hasn't told them everything, and the job, taking them from the Italian countryside back to the summer-sweltering streets of New York City, will unleash a terrible magic that cannot be killed, or controlled ... --adapted from page 4 of cover.