Locked away in the Little Palace, attempting to hide her magic from the probing curiosity of the General, Hermione searches for her way home. Circumstances lead her to make a deal with the devil but even the best-laid plans don't always go the way you want...

'So, when they break away, and he looks at her, green to brown, she knows that he's the one. That in the end, he had always been the one.' Ginny Weasley works on a strict owe-to-owe basis, but it's one person she can never fully repay. And she's always running from him. Always. Until Kaz Brekker needs her to recruit him for a highly coveted kidnapping.

Good and evil, light and dark; as if one could ever have light without shadow or shadows without light? A girl named for the stars, the only things that remain steadfast and true, is given a choice. She really should have read the fine print, shouldn't she?