Ten years after a catastrophic magical event known only as the Severance, Seraphine Dovewick, once a promising student at Valefour University, returns to the haunted academic halls she was exiled from. Branded with a forgotten curse, carrying a cracked locket that ticks with memory, and shrouded in silence and suspicion, Seraphine is thrust into a resurgence of ritual murders. The victims die calling her name, their deaths shrouded in a mystery that only she can unravel.
As Valefour awakens, its sentient buildings, cursed Ivy, and dreaming libraries humming with forgotten power, Seraphine must confront not only faculty ghosts and fractured friendships but also the terrifying truth that she may have orchestrated the very ritual that destroyed her past. The Forbidden Tower, a structure shrouded in myth and mystery, stirs, whispering old names and revealing sigils that shouldn't exist.
Paired reluctantly with Kallen Vireh, a former lover turned adversary, and guided by fragments of her own erased memories, Seraphine uncovers the re-emergence of the Mirrorheart Pact: a spell once designed to seal memory but now violently unbinding it. The university's power structures split, caught between preservation and revelation. At the same time, the glyphs grow teeth, and mirrors scream with prophecy under the ominous influence of the Mirrorheart Pact.
In a narrative laced with time magic, dreambinding, blood-written spells, and the oppressive architecture of memory itself, "Witch Detective" becomes a race against a countdown inscribed in Seraphine's handwriting, one that could rewrite or end the world. The ticking clock of Seraphine's own creation adds a palpable urgency to her quest.
Seven made the pact. One forgot. Now, the Tower remembers.
Memory isn't linear at Valefour. It is alive.
And it wants her back.
