In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great
Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to
their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for
Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and
eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and
for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born
of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife
Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day.
Aoife Grayson's family is unique, in the worst way—every
one of them, including her mother and her elder brother
Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a
ward of the state, and one of the only female students at
the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her
fate can be different.