When Inès Corday wins a place at an elite Parisian academy, she sets her sights on stardom and love. But darkness is stalking her, and in desperation Inès seeks comfort in the sanctity of Notre-Dame. There, she gains an unlikely ally, who promises that she can make her dreams come true, if she is prepared to take some drastic and deadly ‘extra measures’.
Tangled in a web of longing and unreality, Inès accepts the fiendish counsel and uncanny insights of her strange new protector. Guided by its watchful gaze, she is thrust into deadly territory as she hurtles towards her destiny and uncovers the path to realising her deepest, and darkest, desires.