The town of Mercy's End is dying. The land is cracked, the wells are dry, and the people live on borrowed time.
Esther Vale has accepted her fate. Until they came.
Silas Wren says he can save her. Killian Graves swears she belongs to him. But as the town crumbles around her and the hunger beneath the earth stirs awake, Esther learns the truth.
She was never meant to stay in Mercy's End.
She was meant to be fed to it.