One month into the new year at the prestigious Cursebreaker Academy, four young women uncover a chilling secret long kept beneath the mansion of Concordia’s last Luminary. Its revelation threatens to shatter everything they thought they knew about Einar Giedensera... and themselves... Meanwhile the attempts of Marco Vulperian to launch that new archaeological expedition into the desert are being sabotaged, as Concordia’s elemental storms worsen by the day.