"Law One: A summoner is responsible for the creatures she lets through from the netherworld. Dacie Cantar wishes someone had explained the Laws of Summoning before a shadowy creature crawled out of a painting at the local arcade. Add to that being stalked by a strange boy at school who just might be her tovaros or soulmate, and it's about all Dacie can handle. Nearly seventeen, is she ready to master new responsibilities, or will the shadows that stalked her mother until her untimely death consume Dacie too? And then there's Law Two..."--Back cover.