Before the first mystery in New Hope… there was Boston.

Julianna Butler has it all: a promising career, a whirlwind romance, and the keys to Boston’s elite art scene. When her boyfriend and gallery owner David VonHoffster promotes her to director and sweeps her away on a glamorous business trip, she believes her future is finally falling into place.

Dartmoor, 1891

Nothing exciting ever happens in Elizabeth’s life, especially when she stays on her family’s estate in Dartmoor. Endless moorland, cold weather, sheep, and only her governess for company.

Boring.

So when Christopher, a boy she’s never met, arrives at her house to stay for a while, she’s curious and thrilled. Her parents are clear, though: she mustn’t talk to him under any circumstances. Officially, he isn’t there. He’s confined to a room in the guest wing, never to meet anyone. Elizabeth is supposed to pretend he doesn’t exist. So of course, she wants to talk to him.

The traitorous Hero Academy graduates have been defeated. The heroes have returned to the Academy to regroup. Bu there are still thousands of animaru out there, dark monsters whose aim is to end all life on Dizhelim.

What will Aeden and the others do now?