Elias Rune never wanted to be part of the Coven. He never wanted the Veil's call, the whispers that crept into his dreams, or the unseen force that had been waiting for him all along. But when the Veil claims someone, there is no escape.
Dragged before the Coven, Elias is given a choice that is no choice at all-accept the Oath or be consumed by what lies beyond the boundary of their world. Unlike the Oathbearers before him, however, Elias is different. The Veil does not just call to him. It wants him.
As he struggles to master a power he does not understand, Elias begins to uncover the truth hidden in the Coven's history-secrets of those who came before him, those who vanished into the Veil, and the one thing that the elders fear most.
Because Elias is not like the others.
And the Veil has never chosen wrong.