Viv Abbot spends her second semester at Harker Academy for Deviant Defense trying to rescue Reid Graveheart, the reformed Brood demon she loves.
An uneasy truce with Deacon, Reid’s violent and unpredictable older brother, gives her a chance to embrace a darkness Reid never could.
She and her friends maintain appearances on Harker grounds while the White Stag guides them into Astera’s seedy underbelly.
A bounty on Viv’s head endangers the people she cares about most, and with a clock ticking on her own life she must also keep the Half City from destruction.
The betrayal waiting inside that fight will test whatever loyalty she has left.
