In a land where every murderer is condemned to the underrealm, one girl escaped its grasp. One boy was not so fortunate.

Sinisa Strigidae severed her fate from the crows of Veltuur, breaking free from the darkness that once claimed her. But Prince Acari was not spared. Stripped of his humanity, he now wears the mantle of a Reaper—a vessel of death, bound to the very realm Sinisa fought to leave behind.

But she is not done fighting.

With an unlikely ally at her side, Sinisa sets out on a perilous quest across the fractured kingdoms of Tayaraan, seeking a way back into the underrealm. She has no Reaper’s power to guide her, only whispers of lost magic, beasts that hunger for blood, and the creeping dread that she may already be too late. For with every soul Acari claims, the boy she once knew fades further into oblivion.

And something far more ancient is stirring in the abyss.