Sybell, last scion of the mind-bending Acuri, returns to her ancestral homeland to rebuild her family's fallen keep and reclaim the power her people once wielded. But ending her years of wandering means exposing herself to the hunters sworn to eradicate her kind.
Jasper and Marget were raised to be those hunters. Their family's legacy-and their survival-depends on securing a contract to bring down an Acuri. Yet without an Iacio, one of the rare gifted who can shield minds from Acuri influence, Jasper's prospects are fading. When a young, prodigiously talented Iacio arrives in their struggling town, she becomes both their greatest hope and the target of a shadow stalking her steps.
Andreu, murdered for crimes he never committed, rises from death by the hand of a spirit weaver whose motives are far from benevolent. Bound to her will and haunted by the endangered spirits of his family, he must choose between vengeance and the terrible price of resisting her.
Four lives, each grasping for the identity stolen from them. Their paths begin worlds apart, but fate is already drawing them toward a collision that will reshape the balance between hunter and hunted-and decide the future of the Acuri.