In the aftermath of a quiet, unremarkable life that never quite felt her own, Lenora Graves finds herself drawn into something far older and far more dangerous than grief. A chance encounter with a mysterious man known only as Mr. Ebonlocke pulls her into a hidden world that exists just beneath the surface of the 1920s—where death is not an ending, and bargains are never made cleanly.

When Lenora makes a desperate choice to save what little family she has left, the consequences bind her to forces she does not understand and cannot easily escape. As the boundary between life and death begins to blur, she is forced to confront what it means to survive in a world that feeds on memory, longing, and blood.

Some gifts do not arrive with mercy. And some debts are only just beginning to be collected.