With her first year at Bonaventure's Academy of Magic behind her, fourteen-year-old Lilly Noble returns home to discover something dark and terrible has crept out of the shadows and is preying on the good folks of Archer's Bow. When her dad's usually calm demeanor switches from Jekyll to Hyde, Lilly grasps the true nature of the entity wreaking havoc in her beloved hometown. Striving to solve the mystery; she is quickly thrown off course by betrayal, deceit, and long buried secrets. Lilly realizes she needs help. But, where can she find it? For Lilly Noble, this visit home becomes a horrible test. If she is to save Archer's Bow from a devastating fate, she must make choices that weigh survival against death, and good against evil.