In the walled city of Baicheng, everyone knows their place. The Blessed rule from their high thrones, the Crafters keep the city breathing, and the Strays keep their heads down and ambitions appropriately small.

Seventeen year old Lin has spent her whole life working in her grandmother’s family funeral home, guiding recently deceased souls through their final rites. Though she can see ghosts and the paranormal, that doesn’t frighten her. Honestly, it's the living that are the problem. She gets bullied at school, her family business is under threat of revocation by the Clan councils, and opportunities for change are pretty damn hard when you’ve been labeled an outcast and trickster by the higher-ups.

When High Priest Kui of the White Serpent Clan arrives at the funeral home with a compliance notice and a forked smile, Lin quickly realizes this isn't a routine inspection. The Blessed want the business closed. Permanently. Unless, she can offer them something in return.

Cross the Wall with a band of notorious outcasts. Retrieve what they want. And, try to come back in one piece. Simple enough, if the Wall didn’t mark the absolute edge of the sane world. Tales of brutal manglings and strange demons with sharp teeth lie in the Wild. But Kui has that damn notice and Lin has no options left.

Fear, it turns out, is a luxury.