It could be worse for Sylva Lark. She could be dead. A coma was nothing to that. Or her family moving across country for the treatment, leaving her with a big blue mark on her back. She can handle it. Mostly. Except the mark glows and tingles, especially whenever transition helper Atticus Plot (Attic) is close by. She suspects he’s hiding something, and when she stumbles across a torn body bearing the same spiral marking as her own, that suspicion is confirmed. After a few shaves with death, the truth finally comes out and the battles begin. But not all her fights are external; her biggest one is the decision she has to make between doing the right thing for the world and giving up her beloved family for good.