It starts with a class in an old movie theater. Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths,taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the ProfessorΓÇÖs stories are just fiction. There isnΓÇÖt a man in Hollywood who you can call to find out the time youΓÇÖll die. ThereΓÇÖs not a haunted hotel bar in Los Angeles that the devil likes to frequent. ThereΓÇÖs no such thing as magic. But . . . most students donΓÇÖt have the same tragic past as Holland St. James. Now a graduate studentHolland is hoping to use her thesis to rewrite her past by proving that some of the most infamous deaths in old Hollywood were actually murders committed by the devil. She has no idea that this quest will lead her into a deadly world of century-old secrets and unimaginable lies and onto the path of two very dangerous menboth of whom are willing to do whatever it takes to find a magic that will either forever alter HollandΓÇÖs life or completely destroy it.