Me— a student of the household faculty—sent for a month of practice with a dark mage, a summoner of souls. Because of burns on his hands, he’s still helpless like an infant. Now I have to become his hands and help him with everything. Only Lars Thaer will do everything in his power to throw me out of the house. He’s reclusive, harsh, gloomy— and, besides that… he’s cursed. We’re incompatible, like darkness and light. So what will be stronger: darkness in his soul—or my love?