The institute’s graduates are beautiful, smart, and gifted with magic. The best men compete for the right to have them as wives. All roads are open to the girls—but the possibility for them to choose their own fate has been excluded. And it suited everyone. Almost everyone. The limitless loyalty to their mentor didn’t imply rebellion, but the bonds of friendship turned out to be stronger for four girls, and an unexpected gulp of freedom—with love as a seasoning—made them reconsider all the other dogmas.