The fire is behind her. The war is ahead. And the Lwa are no longer silent.

In the World Beneath, even survival comes with strings—and Terra Graves is all out of safe exits. After her home is destroyed and her mentor captured, Terra barely escapes with her congregation from lovestruck White Sentinel John Henry.

Now holed up in The Spot—an extra-dimensional speakeasy where magic bends and secrets breathe—Terra must regroup. Her mentor, Reynaud, may be dead. Her options are vanishing fast. And red sect bokor Celestine Malveaux has her claws in the Sentinels, her twins, and the spiritual plane of Ginen itself.

With her people unraveling and the rules of magic shifting beneath her feet, Terra turns to unlikely allies: a witch without a coven, an exiled bard, a frenemy houngan, and her own unyielding will to fight back. But the deeper she digs, the more she uncovers a truth older than any spell—the war Celestine wages began long before Terra was involved, and the Lwa may no longer be distant observers.

Hovering on the fringes of prophecy, Everett Chase—a newly anointed Shining One—could tip the balance. Whether salvation or catalyst for ruin, even the Lwa don’t seem to agree.

In the World Beneath, faith is power, time is scarce, and memory is a weapon. Terra Graves will need all three to survive.