Nora Sans dreams of reversing time.

Once a passionate academic, she’s now stuck selling stolen Trulight to make rent, and haunted by the night her obsession with prohibited magic cost her both her closest friends.

When a witch destroys the ever-burning tree powering the city-island with Trulight, Nora’s past trespass in the same place has her mistaken for the culprit. But Nora might be the only person with the skillset to re-conjure the magic. A chance to clear her name becomes something more when the Trulight Regulations Agent offering her immunity turns out to be her ex-best friend, Vallery Kaez, who hasn’t spoken to her since the night Atlas Kaez disappeared.

Vallery would do anything to reopen the investigation on her missing brother, even work with Nora, who’s the reason he’s gone. As they race the city’s failing power to capture the witch, the unravelling of a dark cold case illuminates unexpected stakes for both of them, and they’re forced to make a choice: overcome the past and fight together, or endanger everything they haven’t yet lost.