Fi has carved out a career as a cross-dimensional smuggler by sticking to simple rules: keep your routes secret, always draw your energy sword first, and – at all costs – avoid the daeyari, the carnivorous immortals who have ruled for millennia.

When she’s hired to smuggle a bomb into the capital, instinct tells her the risk isn’t worth the pay. But the entreaty of a long-lost friend guilts her into accepting. Then the heist goes terribly wrong, and Fi is thrown at the feet of the daeyari lord, Antal, as payment.

Antal is a hunter – cold and cunning and furious at Fi for her part in the attack on his city. Her saving grace is a common enemy: he’ll spare her if she helps him uncover who masterminded the scheme. To save her life, her family, and her home, Fi joins Antal on a new hunt, bartering with neighboring immortals who might offer an alliance – or tear their throats out in the snow.

She’s always known the dangers of her trade – and the power she’s wielded since childhood, the ability to see the doors between realities, to walk the Void itself. But nothing could have prepared her for meeting Antal, or what her deal with him might ignite. A revolution. And a temptation – for how sweet the monster’s fangs might feel.

From the author of instant Sunday Times bestseller The Phoenix Keeper comes a dazzling new fantasy universe unmissable for fans of the world-building scale of Sarah J. Maas and the world-shifting stakes of Rebecca Yarros.

This novel is intended for adult audiences. It includes multiple scenes of explicit sex between consenting adults, including bite play (without drawing blood).

The non-human, immortal race in this world are obligate carnivores, with humans as their primary food source, including on-page description of a deceased human being eaten. Graphic violence includes bite wounds, burn wounds, and beheading.

The main character discusses past experiences with a neglectful parent who abused alcohol, and the past death of that parent. There are discussions of past experiences of near drowning, as well as on-page alcohol consumption and character death.