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Fear grows strongest in those that feel most alone. Since leaving New York City and coming to Delphion Grey, a very old school in England, she feels desperately on her own. After seeing the ritual from her attic window, Mirabella begins to hear things as well; strange sounds and voices coming from underneath the floorboards in her bedroom and in the library.

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Fear grows strongest in those that feel most alone. Since leaving New York City and coming to Delphion Grey, a very old school in England, she feels desperately on her own. After seeing the ritual from her attic window, Mirabella begins to hear things as well; strange sounds and voices coming from underneath the floorboards in her bedroom and in the library.

Suffering detentions for one offence or another, she spends hours writing lines or essays as punishment in the school's old library, a vast, desolate place, filled with thousands of old books no one reads and a place no one visits voluntarily. When the voices lead her to the discovery of a concealed place of exquisite beauty, Mirabella sees a painting of a beautiful princess with a luminous teardrop in her eye, glowing like a small pearl. The next morning Mirabella awakes to find the pearl teardrop around her neck and soon realizes its powers are changing her.

The awarding of the pearl begins an awakening that releases things held secret for centuries at the school and other ancient places throughout the world. With this stirring, the mysterious owner of the school orders the burning of every book in the library, "...out with the past to make room for the future" the students are told but the real reason is far more sinister. Mirabella learns one of the voices in the library comes from a beautiful old book; its cover so worn the title is no longer legible and with most of its pages missing, it doesn't have much of a story within. Mirabella saves him from the fire, and pledges to help find out what his real story is.

Dark agents attempt to stop her from learning more of the secrets and to end the search for the First Key. She embarks on an amazing journey, which takes her through the streets of London, to the city's underground world of secrets, ghost stations, witches and fallen angels

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