Being dead isn't all it's cracked up to be, and nobody knows that better than Cora Hart. All it took was one wrong move, and she was on the wrong side of mortality. But a coven of ancient witches offers her a deal she can't refuse—temporary life in exchange for solving a murder—so she finds herself reluctantly breathing again. Cora has been fighting monsters all her life, so finding one bad guy in her hometown of Leap Point should be easy. She'll have to crack the case of Florence Whitaker, a peculiar librarian found dead in her cottage, clutching a cursed locket that's steeped in dark history. While the local police write it off as natural causes, Cora's supernatural instincts tell her otherwise. For the first time in her life (or death), Cora must do the one thing she's always get to know the locals. Armed with her hunter's instincts and an awkward grasp on being alive again, Cora races to solve Florence's murder before her time runs out. But in a town where everyone has something to hide, the truth might be the deadliest thing of all. Life is temporary, death is forever. Unless Cora Hart can change the rules of both.