And, despite being heir to a family of powerful wizards, his ambivalence towards magic renders him incapable of ending the complex spell on his own. In order to break his curse, he must make some desperate alliances-and regain the trust of his partner, Rowan, who has not only forgotten his existence, but the fact that they are capable of using magic at all. is an atmospheric and thought-provoking contemporary fantasy-a character-driven story about the loneliness of queer young adulthood, and the possibility for escape.