Fourteen-year-old Filipina “Fil” and her eleven-year-old brother Ari are stunned to learn they descend from a powerful bloodline of white witches. Their grandmother, Mina, is one of the last three members of an ancient covenant that, a century ago, imprisoned the dark sorcerer Lord Darius Vane beneath Highgate Cemetery in London, sealing him away to protect the world.
To claim their birthright and awaken their magic, Fil and Ari must return to Highgate under the full moon on Halloween for the Rite of Confirmation. But Ari acts too soon—ripped from Mina and Fil’s protection and from their teleporting vessel: a haunted Victorian telephone inhabited by the mischievous spirit Gerard Finklebopper Livingston, cursed by Vane into eternal servitude.
Ari’s mistake hurls him into Central Highgate, the cursed ground anchoring Vane’s prison, and the barriers begin to crack. Vane’s forces close in—Bloody Jane and her ghostly hounds, gargoyles, and ravens—because Ari’s blood can complete a forbidden ritual that would free Vane and grant him immortality.
Now a race against the night begins. Guardians from West and East—witches, beasts, and unlikely allies—must unite to find Ari and return him to Mina before sunrise decides whether he becomes the world’s salvation… or its undoing.
