As a guild bartender, I can handle virtually anything-mages, sorcerers, witches, the casual demon. But display me anything family-related and I’d rather run for the hills. It doesn’t have even to be my family.

So I have no idea why I thought spending the holidays with Aaron’s mother and pop was a good idea.

Get together his famous parents is already terrifying enough, but I’ve got a larger problem. Learners of his family’s renowned mage academy are becoming attacked on the grounds-and somehow no one offers seen an individual assailant? Unexplained paths litter the nearby woods, rumors of forbidden alchemy are circulating the campus . and Ezra has been acting strangely since we appeared.

Something deadly is making in the shadow of Sinclair Academy, as well as the longer we try uncover it, the more dangerous it turns into. But no matter the risk, we’ll defend the students.

And Aaron’s parents too, Perhaps. If we must.