Love is a choice. It isn't written in the stars.

Bone Criers have been ferrying the dead into the afterlife for centuries, a dangerous duty only possible with the powers they gain from sacrificing their amourés—men destined to love them and die. And with one more sacrifice, Ailesse will become the next Bone Crier matrone. But she and her friends are determined to chart their own course and rewrite the rules of the afterlife. If they don't break the soul bond between Ailesse and her amouré, she could die—just as Bastien's father did.

Sabine struggles to maintain her authority as matrone to her clan and her control over her violent jackal power—and she's running out of time. Bastien is faced with impossible threats from the spirits of the Underworld. And Ailesse is being drawn into her own Underworld, where she must resist her mother's siren song long enough to remember what she's been fighting for.

A story of love, sisterhood, and determination as three friends find the courage and power to shatter the boundary between the living and the dead.