Twenty years ago, the sun forever vanished behind an impenetrable fog. Now, Victoria Rosenthorne, a once-in-a-generation witch prodigy, has enrolled at Trinity Academy hoping to make a breakthrough in her father’s work on ancient magic, and even make some new friends!

Yet Victoria harbors forbidden magic of her own, and when the headmaster discovers her secret, she is dragged onto a climb to the peak of Mount Peerless, whose ancient ruins may harbor the key to the fog, a mystery the headmaster seems to know more about than he lets on…