Cruel jokes have consequences—especially if someone’s fate depends on them. How could Alice Lazareva know how a ritual to summon a thousand-year demon would end for her? The fifteen-year-old girl was branded and thrown out of the shadow world. She believed her life was beyond the power of those who condemned her. How wrong she was!
She’s forced to leave her beloved Hong Kong and return to her homeland, to the world of sorcerers. But is it really so easy to get rid of the influence of a demon set free? Can Alice become part of the shadow world this time? Or maybe the city she thinks is earthly hell will give her real love?