After Alka Chelrazi's parents were murdered by Wizards, the ruling class of the Marovian Republic, she was taken in by an underground rebel group. She has trained every day since to prepare herself to go undercover at Blackwater Academy, the most prestigious school of magic in the Republic, in order to destroy Wizard society from the inside. Now, she is immersed in the dangerous and elite world of Blackwater and as she takes part in the Great Game, Alka soon learns that surviving may cost her everything.