Claire Rivers is a young witch who spends most of her days in the Reston college library, searching for a way to free herself from her abusive, all-seeing mother. Claire has given up on herself after her only friend and lover betrayed her to a cult, but a chance meeting with an anxious yet insightful girl named Lily pulls her back into a world of magical mysteries. Claire quickly finds herself facing the vicious politics of the magical underworld, her exceptionally hard-to-ignore gay heart, and whether she can actually afford to let herself heal.  This story contains elements of urban fantasy, sapphic romance, mystery, trauma and abuse, underworld politics, and overly complicated magic systems.