"Abigail has just started her second year at the Tarkana Witch Academy and is up to her ears studying for Horrible Hexes and Awful Alchemy. The good news is that Calla, the former glitch-witch, is in all her classes. The bad news? A sign has arrived that the Curse Breaker is among them, the witchling who was propesied to one day break Odin's curse over them. Meanwhile, Hugo brings troubling news, and Orkadian warshi phas arrived in port, bearing threats of war. When a young boy from the ship, Robert Barconian, asks for help retrieving a missing item, he, Abigail, Hugo, and Calla are swept into a mystery that takes them deep into the catacombs beneath the Tarkana Fortress, a place where the draugar, the living dead, are said to wander about"--Provided by publisher.
