Selena Reed, the most gifted witch of the reclusive Reed clan, is destined to save Lucas Howard, whose family curse kills every man before the age of thirty. For three years, Selena sacrifices her own lifeblood to keep Lucas alive, believing they will marry. But on their wedding day, Lucas publicly rejects her, calls her a fraud, and reveals Sophia, a doctor determined to prove the curse is fake. Lucas destroys Selena’s sacred artifacts, ruins her reputation, kills her mentor, and even desecrates her mother’s grave. Yet when his thirtieth birthday arrives, the curse strikes exactly as Selena warned. Doctors can find no cause as Lucas’s body rapidly deteriorates. Desperate and terrified, Lucas begs Selena to save him. She refuses, watching him die from the curse he mocked. After his death, Selena becomes the new leader of the Reed clan and ends the generations-old marriage pact, finally setting its women free.
