“A swashbuckling experience.” —Booklist

“A rollicking Indiana Jones flick with a female lead.” —BCCB

The Last Magician meets A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue with this thrilling, “breathless” (Kirkus Reviews) tale filled with magic and set in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains in which a girl must look for Vlad the Impaler’s cursed ring to conserve her father.

Some legends never die…

Vacationing with her treasure-hunting dad is definitely a desire for Theodora. She’s read every about The Lady Rogue reserve in his library, has an impressive understanding of the globe’s many sought-after relics, and provides all the ambition in the world. What she doesn’t have is her father’s authorization. That honor would go to her dad’s nineteen-year-old protégé—and once-upon-a-time love of Theodora’s lifestyle—Huck Gallagher, while Theodora is normally left to sit by itself in her resort in Istanbul.

Until Huck comes back from an expedition without her father and enlists Theodora’s help in rescuing him. Equipped with her father’s travel journal, the hesitant duo learns that her dad had been digging up details on a famous and magical band that once belonged to Vlad the Impaler—more widely known as Dracula—which it just might be the main element to finding him.

Journeying into Romania, Theodora and Huck embark on a captivating experience through Gothic villages and dark castles in the misty Carpathian Mountains to recover the notorious ring. But they aren’t the just ones who are trying to find it. A secretive and dangerous occult culture with a powerful connect to Vlad the Impaler himself is definitely hunting for it, too. And they’ll go to any measures—including murder—to possess it.