Even at the start of August, everything in her life was simple and clear: Jenny Dalfine, the magician Marco’s granddaughter and assistant, lived and worked in a circus-tent. She had friends—air acrobats Edward and Evelina, the strongman Ludwig and his assistant James. She had enemies—the trainer Roger, a jerk and bully, and his pupil Caleb. But one night, everything changed. Jenny found out that contraband animals were kept in the circus, and decided to free them. Who could have known they weren’t just animals, but magical ones! Who could have thought there was still magic in the world—that their circus wasn’t really a circus, but an ancient brotherhood, the MAGUS, and that she was a full-fledged member of it—meaning she had to face severe punishment for her wrongdoing? But first, the girl has to catch a frosty chimera—the terrifying magical creature she released from its cage.