Conceived in dream. Born a nightmare.There are a lot of things I know: story structure, Hollywood trivia, what makes a director great... It's the stuff I didn't know-who my real father was, that my uncle is a demon, the fact that I'm not human-that's gotten me into so much trouble.After ripping my crush's heart out-literally-I discover that I'm not just a normal autistic seventeen-year-old. I'm the daughter of the King of Nightmares, the cruel and excessively goth ruler of the Nether. Now, I'm stuck at Miss Perkins's School for Girls, learning how to exist in a world where things really do go bump in the night.Dangerous magic, treacherous enemies, unfairly hot vampires, and magic schools are all tropes I love in movies. But throw them into my real life? Hard pass. And I still have to deal with queen bees and bullies while unraveling a conspiracy that could crumble the very foundations of reality as we know it? That's bullsh-

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A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright future we need. Betsy's a modern-day Witch with an ageless problem: she's worried about screwing up her coven's ritual. Again. But the coven has a bigger issue to face — the destruction of their home thanks to a fracked gas pipeline. And then an even bigger problem — a greed-fueled entity will soon obliterate Earth’s ability to support life. Tarot cards indicate the coven must sort among allies and threats, human and ethereal. Follow Betsy, Sail, Fire, Mari, and Tal as they disentangle the truth and seek the magic to avert the cataclysm.