Saltmarrow's ward-lamps keep the sea-fog Hollows out, and only witches can light them. Then twelve go dark and no one in the coven can bring them back. Hattie Pelletier, cast out as magicless, comes home with a spool of copper and an engineering degree, and her first coil works. Now Corwin Ashgrove, heir to the ward-keepers, has been sent to prove she stole the power.
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