Estranged from her family, Maloney, a young girl of seventeen, escapes home on a scholarship to study abroad in Rome. There, she stumbles across another world, chalk full of wonder and magic—from Satyr gardens, Harpies, and ancient Mediterranean peoples to Dragon Sanctuaries, the sanctum has it all, and Meloney quickly finds herself enraptured by it. But her past hasn’t left her unmarred; will she be able to overcome her crippling self doubt to find a family of her own, and defend them against the dark that lurks behind the curtains?