Prequel to nightshade series

Sixteen-year-old Lady Ember Morrow fulfills a family obligation by joining her friend Alistair in the Conatus Guard and begins training to help with the order's true mission, to seek out and stop evildoers and their unnatural creations.

Everything Conotus stands for is at risk, and Ember must involve herself in a deception that ultimately brings about the Witches' War.