In 1692 Salem, you visit your best friend’s grave after she’s executed for witchcraft, condemned by fear rather than truth. In the quiet graveyard, you meet Alessi Blackthorn—the most powerful and feared wizard in history, a man said to bend reality itself. He comes across you by chance, but the moment he sees you mourning beneath the yew trees, something in him breaks. For the first time in centuries of power, isolation, and ruin, he falls in love.