Liyella Calevarys is a jaded, bored medicolegal death investigator seeking excitement in her life and career. She and her husband, Jori, have nothing in common anymore and Liyella can't remember the last time she really felt anything, including passion, until she encounters the one person that makes something curl low in her belly. Work is the same day after day, consisting of minch decomps, squonk suicides, and accidental shtriga deaths across Velmorgia - the largest city on the continent of Noctyrr. When Jori dies suddenly, evidence that something impossible happened. A creature that cannot exist is responsible for his death. But, who, or what, is it?

Liyella begins investigating her husband's mysterious death just as a new romance begins. Her adventures into the underbelly of Velmorgia shine light on a horrifying reality about the world she lives in. Suddenly, she finds herself in the throes of life and death, good versus evil. This is a romantasy story packed with magical realism, forensic science, and mythology that will make you question the world you live in.