The city of Kikyo lives and breathes magic…and not just the acceptable kind. Upstanding citizens—human or not—fear and revile the criminal fae, with their forbidden blood magic and their constant, hidden power struggles.

Noa Takasu lived an ordinary life on the surface…until he came home one day to an empty apartment and a fae debtor's curse. The curse marks him as part of the underworld, shunned by the respectable and the law-abiding. On the run with nowhere safe to turn, he encounters former classmate Miyori Ogimura—an honor student with a secret of her own.

But their friendship only pushes them further into Kikyo's underworld—and when bits and pieces of the city start to die, they must join forces with unlikely allies to protect the city they call home.