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When a 200-year-old witch attacks her, 16-year-old bookworm Lainey Styles is determined to find a logical explanation. Even with the impossible staring her in the face, Lainey refuses to believe it - until she finds a photograph linking the witch to her dead mother. After consulting a psychic, Lainey discovers that she, like her mother, is a Keeper: a witch with the exclusive ability to unlock and wield the Grimoire, a dangerous but powerful spell book. But there’s a problem.

Days before her marriage to the king of the neighboring Sunruta Kingdom, Princess Annabel of Najir is abruptly betrayed by her fiancé and thrown into prison with her magic knight under suspicion of being a spy. After being held captive for months and informed her kingdom is no more, Annabel passes out in a burst of destructive magic, only to awaken as her 12-year-old self, six years before her political marriage. Armed with knowledge of the dark future to come, she now has another chance to bring about a new fate.

Nach den verheerenden Ereignissen in der British Library, bei denen sich Malice – ein Wesen, das sich von der Furcht der Menschen ernährt – aus seinem Buch befreit hat, wird Bookford Manor bis auf Weiteres geschlossen. Währenddessen bricht weltweit Chaos aus: Die Limbuswesen bringen immer mehr Buchfiguren um, Bibliotheken und Buchhandlungen werden in Brand gesteckt, die Leute hören auf zu lesen, und die Idea schwindet. Annie und ihren Freunden bleibt nicht viel Zeit. Sie müssen Malice aufhalten! Doch reicht Annies Gabe aus, um das Schicksal der Welt zu verändern?