After a chance find in a smugglers' cave, Tom Wild is kidnapped by a stranger and whisked away to London to face a secretive and ancient group of magicians. He is presented with an agonising choice: join them and forsake his old life and family forever or face a grisly death. Tom quickly realises that all is not as it seems and that the group's leader is engaged in a dangerous game of magic, power and war. At stake is the future of England, her King, and the very existence of magic.