Chapters 1-2 Summary

Cassel is a teenage boy in a family of curse-workers, magic users in an alternate version of modern USA. When he sleepwalks onto a roof, Cassel is sent home from the private boarding school he attends. He quickly becomes wrapped up in the plot his two older brothers have put together to murder the head of the Zacharov crime family and put their friend Anton in his place. Cassel figures out that his brother Barron has been memory-working him, using him to help in their plan and then forcing him to forget. Cassel was made to think he murdered Zacharov's daughter Lila, the girl he loved, but he soon realizes that she was actually transformed by him into a cat. He rescues her and manages to foil his brothers' assassination attempt, re-writing Barron's memories in the process.

Cassel wakes up on...