NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this poignant heartfelt novella from the New York Times bestselling
author of Spinning Silver and the Scholomance trilogy a young witch who has inadvertently
cursed her brother to live a life without love must find a way to undo her spell. Celia
discovered her talent for magic on the day her beloved oldest brother Argent left home.
Furious at him for abandoning her in a war-torn land she lashed out not realizing her
childish angry words would become imbued with the power of prophecy dooming him to a life
without love. While Argent wanders the world forced to seek only fame and glory instead of
the love and belonging he truly desires Celia attempts to undo the curse she placed on him.
Yet even as she grows from a girl to a woman she cannot find the solution—until she learns the
truth about the centuries-old war between her own people and the summerlings immortal beings
who hold a relentless grudge against their mortal neighbors. Now with the aid of her unwanted
middle brother Celia may be able to both undo her eldest brother’s curse and heal the lands so
long torn apart by the Summer War.