After an investigation ends in tragedy, psychic Naomi Tenner loses everything. Publicly denounced as a charlatan, ostracized by her community and fired from her job, she flees Boston in shame, tormented with guilt and regret. After eight months of quietly rebuilding her life, Naomi is stunned to find Detective Cole Walker, the very man responsible for her demise, at her front door. He needs her help, and won’t take no for an answer. Can Naomi face her past, and trust the man who has already once betrayed her?

Cole Walker doesn’t believe in psychics, but he’s out of options. The very clue that destroyed a former investigation seems to bear a chilling resemblance to his most recent homicide, calling into question everything he thought he knew about Naomi. Worse, the evidence seems to point to a killer still on the loose, and a cover-up that implicates some of the city’s most prominent figures. Putting his own career on the line, Cole has no choice but to turn to the last person who would want to help him and convince her to work together.

They’ll have to put their animosity - and sizzling chemistry- aside in order to fix a tragic mistake and outwit a monster on the hunt for his next victim.

As the adopted daughter of one of the world’s most powerful black magic syndicates, Akari has seen — and doled out — her fair share of death and destruction. When an unthinkable betrayal destroys the only family she’s ever known, she vows to get retribution. Desperate, and with nothing left to live for, Akari makes a blood oath to the Dragon God: her life, in exchange for vengeance against her enemies. The last thing she expects is to wake up as a High Order Priestess, gifted a rare magic that’s been outlawed for centuries due to a chilling side effect: deep and irrevocable psychosis.

Having long given up his dream of serving the Clergy, Ry is a dishonored ex-Sentinel, struggling to piece his life together after a magical rite goes terribly wrong. Resigned to a life of contemplation and penance, he’s shocked to find himself bonded to a woman whose very existence is a violation of the Temple’s teachings and who can wield a forbidden magic known to unleash death and chaos. But he soon discovers that there’s more to Akari’s gifts than what the Temple has taught, and he can’t ignore the pull he feels towards the woman who has shaken the foundations of his faith.

Racing against the magic’s devastating consequences, they’ll have to unravel the truth about Akari’s mysterious past and unearth a devastating secret that could threaten the legitimacy of the world’s most powerful magical sect.