Elara Varek has been human for more than two hundred years.
She has not aged, she has not died, and she has no intention of telling Veilkeeper Academy why.
The prestigious school trains the few supernatural reapers trusted to grant death to humans and immortals alike. Elara arrives with an invitation she cannot refuse, a scythe she earned long before her classmates were born, and a secret mission that has nothing to do with graduation.
Something is sleeping beneath the Academy.
To stop it, Elara must use the rare gift that has shaped her entire unnatural life: dreamwalking between dimensions.
Every journey takes her farther from the familiar rules of reality—and closer to a place where nothing is born, nothing dies, and something vast seems increasingly aware of her presence. The only person who makes her feel anchored is Professor Cassel Blackthorn, a cold Night Court warrior with his own desperate reason for needing Elara’s impossible talent.
Their attraction is forbidden, inconvenient, and getting harder to deny.
But the deeper Elara travels, the less certain she is that she is coming back whole.
The Academy thinks it is teaching her how to deal in death.
It has no idea that Elara is searching for something even Death may not control.
And somewhere beyond the veil, something has started calling her by name.