She rebuilt her life. It wasn’t hers to keep.
Winter has settled in, and for the first time in months, Terra Graves has something that feels like stability. Her hounfort thrives beneath Circe’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Her congregation is healing—old bonds reforged, new ones forming. The lessons are full. The spirits are quiet.
It almost feels like a life.
Until Mireille Laurent arrives with a summons Terra can’t ignore. Farhad Rezaei—the Vampire Lord of Chicago—has called in her debt. Terra is his mystic. His mambo on retainer. And he’s ready to put her to work.
The assignment is simple: find a woman moving through the edges of the World Beneath and bring her in alive.
But nothing stays simple.
The last mystic who walked this path—druid Kayleigh Sullivan—is dead. The trail she left behind is fractured, dangerous, and threaded with something that doesn’t behave like any magic Terra knows. The deeper she digs, the more the hunt begins to turn, pulling her into the same patterns that got Kayleigh killed.
And she’s not the only one being pulled.
Ex-sentinel, John Henry, must choose between what he was taught to believe and what he knows is right. Dakota Thompson, stressed student, pushes forward where others hesitate. Witch, Piper Moon Reynolds, holds everything together—until the strain starts to show.
Because something is shifting beneath it all. And this time, the danger isn’t waiting to be found. It’s already moving.
As the hunt closes in and the lines between ally, enemy, and obligation blur, Terra faces a truth she can’t outrun:
Every Debt Demands Its Due.
