UPDATING MON / WED / FRI -- 20 CHAPTERS Maria Lucien is infamous among the witches of the Black Dime Cabaret. Founded by her brother, Edgar, and now left in her hands, she has managed the cabaret in the ten years following his death. But when Edgar’s tomb is exhumed by fanatics, revealing secrets that leave a paper-trail to their family’s crimes, Maria’s place in the world is threatened. Like most of the zany cast who inhabit the cabaret, Maria Lucien is a witch. Yet as she grows older, now in her sixties, the younger women will grasp at anything to abolish the little power she has left. Fearing she will become disgraced and abandoned by the witches she devotes her life to fostering, Maria travels to the French fortress of Carcassonne where her incompetent yet wealthy older brother Alfred rules as Baron, and crazed witches plot Maria’s downfall. Here, the question is posed: what horrors does it take for somebody to become one of the most powerful and influential witches in the world? As the siblings bicker and fight to control the fate of their family, Maria follows a spiralling trail of debts and crimes committed prior to her brother’s death in order to preserve their secrets. But as she digs deeper, she finds that even in death, her brother has the power to destroy her future.