In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to its forgotten past – and the demons that sleep at its heart… Once, Lan had a different name. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her. She spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past.

For anything that might help her understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother, in her last act before she died. No one can see the mysterious mark – until the night Zen appears at the teahouse and saves her life. Zen is a practitioner, one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom, whose abilities were rumoured to be drawn from the demons they communed with.

Magic believed to be long lost. Magic to be hidden at all costs. Both Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within.

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