With her first witch exam looming in front of her, Amalie's got a lot on her plate. Between practice exams, a mystery man who seems to hold some family secrets, pre-teen Taylin skipping school, and the hot-but-distracting detective finally asking her on a date, she's not sure what to do first.

When one of her Aunts shows up to a family dinner with blood on her hands, her to-do list suddenly gets a whole lot longer.

When the murder of a local stitch-witch turns out to be tied to the murder of her great-Aunt fifteen years ago, the past and future collide. Investigating gets a lot more difficult when the key clues seem to be from a fifteen-year-old mystery, and held by people who really don’t want to talk. There are two sides to every story, and Amalie is about to get caught in the middle—if she survives.