On a rain-soaked night in dreary Paris, Larkspur Lee has found herself at the heart of an impossible crime.An ambitious alchemist, Lark, along with her fellow classmates and academic rivals find themselves caught up in the murder of their universitys headmistress - the immortal Petronelle Flamel.Flamels death is as sudden as it is suspicious, and in its wake, the school devolves into chaos. The mysterious investigator assigned to the case, Violaine, believes a cult known as the Promethean Genesis is responsible for Flamels murder.But Lark was once a Promethean initiate herself, and shell do anything to keep her past hidden and stay out of the cults reach. And when the mentor she crossed an ocean and a continent to escape re-enters her life, enticing her to his side once again while secretly wielding an agenda of his own, the new life shes built for herself begins to crumble.As the Prometheans plans come to fruition, the universitys dark history comes to light, and Lark is torn between her ambitions and her growing affection for Violaine.Before long, the two women will have no choice but to set their suspicions aside and save one another when no one else will.
