As Callum begins his final year at the Magisterium, he is estranged from most of his friends and a furtive darkness haunts him.

Continues the adventures of Call and his friends in the Magisterium. "A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed . . . but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history of the Magisterium, thought to be responsible for a devastating death...

Emprisonné pour un crime qu'il n'a pas commis, Callum Hunt (Cal) s'inquiète pour ses amis Tamara, Carnage et Jasper. Or, tous le prennent pour l'Ennemi de la Mort. Quotidiennement, il subit des interrogatoires, mais lorsque son maître Rufus vient essayer de s'expliquer avec lui, Cal essaiera de lui faire comprendre qu'il n'est Constantin Madden, même si son âme est en lui....

Things have been better for Callum Hunt since the evil Constantine Madden was "officially" destroyed, even his relations with his father have improved, so he is happy to get back to the Magisterium for his Bronze Year to continue his magical studies--but when one of the students is murdered, Call and his friends, Tamara and Aaron, must track down the killer, without revealing the fact that Call is Madden reborn. Les élèves du Magisterium ont toujours...