Mother Magic does not like the way her children have begun to forget her, despite their constant calls upon her power and the gifts she so often gives them. So she's going to...change the story a little bit.
Two high societies, forty of the oldest, wealthiest families in the world, and when everything is a stage set to be laid before the public, what else are the people who belong to these families but actors in a performance of their own design?
The sudden newcomers to this familiar but completely different world are going to have to learn a thing or two about survival - even those who thought they knew what it meant to be at the top of the hierarchy.