Illuminated Vol II The year is in its final months, and at this time of heightened superstition within the Nephirian world, luck seems anything but merciful to fledgling Katie McCormick. Her lover, King Zyne Xavier of Maybridge County, suspects her heart is elsewhere... ...like her Maker, the crafty and thrill-seeking Vaxtor Skylark, who has taken up business with the Emperor of Addington and left Katie to her own devices only a week after Turning her. There are powers she has yet to develop and things within herself she would rather not let bloom. On a grander scale, the Acacia farnish is without a Grandmaster. Jackie Sapphire remains in 'apprentice' status and is unable to take the reigns, and the absence of authority is in dire need of resolve. Of course, there will always be Levariat Shanderwick: peculiarly long hair, slick designer clothes, and universally infamous throughout Nephirian society for being the most powerful dark wizard alive. Deals are made between unlikely kindred spirits, strangers drift in on gusts of snow, and for better or worse, the Acacia farnish has never been so full of FUN!