Everything suggests it will be just another night at the Covenant Academy when Eliza Kyteler and Kate Saint German, two young Sangre Negra clan, decide to wake all the dead in the Little Hill cemetery.  What seemed a simple misdemeanour results in a definitive expulsion. Now Eliza's only option is to be presented to society and find the perfect husband. But while her days begin to be split between eyecatching dresses, luxurious fabrics and dances where all that glitters appears to be gold, a dark threat begins to grow in the shadiest corners of London. Twenty-seven years after the assassination of Eliza's parents, death stalks the Sangre Negra once more. And each victim is discovered in a more macabre state than the last. Who is behind the murders of the Sangre Negra?