FANTASY DETECTIVE ABOUT A SEAMSTRESS WHO FINDS UP IN THE EPICENTER OF THE WAR BETWEEN WITCHES AND WIZARDS 1911, New York Seventeen-year-old Frances Hallowell works as a seamstress and mourns her brother, who mysteriously died a few months ago. Everything changes dramatically when her boss attacks her. Frances does not understand how his corpse with scissors sticking out of his neck ends up at her feet... The police do not have time to accuse Frances of murder: two nurses come for her and take her to the Koldostan sanatorium - allegedly because she is terribly ill. However, it soon becomes clear that this is not a sanatorium at all, but an academy for witches. The headmistress warns the newly minted student about how dangerous strong magic is, but Frances doesn’t have enough of the simple spells they teach at the academy. She is fascinated by Finn, a mysterious young man who appears in her dreams and promises to teach her more sophisticated forms of witchcraft - ones that will help her find her brother's killer...