Restless rake and lovesick aristocrat Lucian Augustus has fallen in with a wealthy, decadent coven of witches endowed with a new immortality. They are incited to leave, dismiss their appointed lives of wealth and privilege in Northern England and start a new life along the warm Mediterranean but end up in a bitter, century's old feud. The Dark Sisters, Benedikta and Kristabelle Ambrose refuse to let another witch, let alone several, reside within a thousand miles of Genoa. Autumn Anders, the group's oracle and seer, Viktoria Ambrose, from the same ancient family of immortals, Kristian Asher, Lucian's mysterious mentor and teacher and others keep him in the dark as to the true reasons of this twisted, darkly enchanted migration. Through his memoirs and through his eyes we see that happiness eludes him as he is torn between his desire to remain in this group or to leave it. It is on this quixotic search for meaning that he longs to find that which could save his soul and darkened heart.