For centuries, the University of Magic and Eloquence has ensured that Europe’s finest magicians harness the power that emanates from books, from those phrases that remain etched in our memories and that only literature is capable of creating: Alighieri, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and so many others.

Adrián Montes and Rhys Cooper have an innate talent for magic, but they can’t stand each other. After being rivals throughout their childhood and adolescence, during their idyllic summers in Tuscany, they will now be forced to work together to solve a mystery: the one surrounding the death of their mothers. Both suffered a strange accident that ended their lives fifteen years ago, in the same classrooms the boys now attend.

Adrián suspects that what killed their mothers wasn’t just a spell gone awry. If he’s right, they could share the same fate. In the dangerous world of magic, that wouldn’t be unusual.

What would be unusual, however, would be their mutual dislike to turn into something more.