Things should be getting easier for Katerina "Kat" Dashkova. The former princess of the Russian empire wields considerable sorcerous powers, has learned to control the unruly prophecies in her head, and is a member of the Transcendental Society-a group dedicated to protecting the ideals of the Enlightenment from the tyranny of the supernatural-under the leadership of a quasi-immortal Benjamin Franklin. Except the god Veles has laid claim to her former...