Sorcery for Assassination? Wouldn't That Be Swell? For Aisling and Virgil, the potential for magical murder becomes clear when the FBI brings them a mysterious death that can't be a killing. But it can't be natural causes, either. The deeper they probe the more complicated the case. A Magician is running a murder-for-hire service. And he seems to own the key to decrypting all the secrets roaming the web. Is the Magician a guy with breakthrough new tech? Or a woman with breakthrough new sorcery? Either way, Aisling will have to hurry to unravel the truth, because the problem has just escalated: The Magician has issued a contract on Virgil Maxwell. Could they solve the case more quickly if Virgil died? Would it help if the sorceress assassin sent to snuff the physicist was forced to run, with no choice but to team up with them? But forget these small matters. The Magician has unwittingly targeted a secret coven of witches for his next victims--witches who are perfectly able to blow Manhattan apart fighting back. Can a sorceress and a scientist stop the battle before it starts? Or will a magical war come into the open and reveal the world of sorcery so long hidden from view?