It’s our penultimate week in the Split Worlds. Sam is lured to meet the Sorcerer; Cathy must outwit Lord Poppy; and Will flits between competing impulses. As it becomes ever clearer how many secrets Aquae Sulis is keeping (what is going on with Lady Iris?), it’s safe to conclude one thing at least: never trust a Rosa.

Catherine Rhoeas-Papaver has been dragged back to Aquae Sulis to be married, but first she must impress Lord Poppy and cast her final wish. Max the Arbiter is desperate to understand who destroyed his Chapter, but he doesn’t understand the political waters he must now navigate. And politics are deadly in the Nether…

The Split Worlds of the Fae and the Mundane are connected by the silver-skied Nether and the portals that permit the Fae-touched and their watchdogs, the Arbiters, to cross between them. But the London Chapter of Arbiters is corrupt, and young runaway Cathy is being pulled back into the Nether for a glorious future she wants no part of. Granted three dangerous wishes by a Fae Lord, can she tear herself free of the Nether?