Inheriting a cursed estate is a death sentence in 1880s London, and rational scholar Edwin Blackthorn has one month to solve a haunting before he's the next victim. With his life and fortune on the line, he must turn to the one thing he scorns: magic.

In the gas-lit East End, exiled mage Julian Thorne survives by selling charms and hiding from his past. He sees the desperate lord as just another job, but Evershade Manor is no simple haunting. It's a prison for an ancient, violent spectre, and it's hungry.

Forced together, a cynical sorcerer and a gentle lord must uncover a century-old crime. But as spectral attacks give way to a fierce, unspoken attraction, they discover the greatest danger may not be the ghosts, but their own disastrously beating hearts.