Jo Wiley thinks she has everything she needs in her quirky but tidy life in Ljubljana. Her teahouse is thriving. She's surrounded herself with chosen family and her friends, well... several of them come with benefits. When a body is discovered at a glitzy party, Jo's carefully constructed reality starts to unravel. Her lover's murder lifts a veil on a hidden world of ghosts, demons, and forgotten gods where Jo is the link between this reality and the next. She may also be the reason her friends are turning up dead. Jo has to use her new gift to find the killer, and fast, because there are much worse things than dying.

Holed up in a farmhouse in the Slovenian Alps, Jo Wiley is hiding from the personal demons and the dead who haunt her in Ljubljana. When she meets a secretive ghost from the area’s war-torn past, being alone becomes much less interesting. Before she can uncover her dead friend’s identity and agenda, her son’s father visits her in the mountains with his own dark secrets, and a cryptic warning. Forced from seclusion, Jo returns to the city to find things are even more chaotic than when she left. Vandals have attacked her teahouse and she and her chosen family are on the battle lines between ancient deities with human faces and humans who want the power of the gods. As more secrets are revealed, Jo struggles with how these new pieces fit together and where her place is in a world where her fate is more determined than she ever believed. As she gets closer to understanding the truth about her ex and her own past, it’s clear she may have to make the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loves most. But what if her sacrifice isn’t enough? And if it is, what are the consequences of thwarting fate?

With a phone call, Jo Wiley is drawn back into the circle of her family. Her mother is dying and even though there’s no love lost between them, Jo feels duty bound to return to the place she grew up and see her mother off into the next world. Things aren’t quiet in Ljubljana for Leo, the local Witchfinder and the man Jo may have finally fallen for, while she’s gone. A haunting disturbs his friends and neighbors and Bettine, a member of the Board sworn to keep the supernatural hidden, announces a surprise visit to investigate the disturbances Jo and her circle of friends have caused in the last year. Her mother’s last words leave Jo staggering. Returning home to Ljubljana, to Leo, Jo tries to regroup before Bettine brings the power of the Board to bear on them, but others from her past have their secrets, too. Secrets that endanger not just Jo, but everyone who lives behind the Veil. As her world unravels, Jo is left to wonder if there is anyone she can trust, even herself.

If Jo Wiley has learned one thing, it's to never trust a god, especially if he's her ex.Stranded in the underworld and wanted by the Board tasked with keeping the supernatural secret, Jo Wiley is desperate to return to her life in Ljubljana-or what's left of it after her friends and family were forced to scatter to protect her and themselves. ?rnobog, the dark god of Slavic myth and Jo's ex, has had plenty of time to set a plan in motion to reclaim a reenchanted world for the old gods. As Jo gathers the pieces she needs to return home, she has no idea she is playing right into his hands. In order to save the world and keep the darkest imaginings from humankind's nightmares at bay, Jo is forced to make strange alliances and an unforgivable choice. Even if she succeeds, nothing will ever be the same.