Siggy J. Alexie is certainly a troubled young woman. Extracted from her family as a young child, left behind by her adoptive mom into the foster treatment system as a preteen, she actually is haunted by a history of abandonment, abuse, and mental health issues. She actually is also haunted with a demon. Siggy sees spirits and demons, has conversations with beings she knows aren’t actually there, suffers from cluster head aches, coffee habit, and terminal poor language, and has a hot temper that simply won’t give up. She lives in a crappy about Break up Feather trailer in the woods in Bearpaw, Michigan-alone, simply just how she loves it. But then she will go and will something heroic, and screws up her rotten lifestyle even further. She steps directly into save the life of Bane, a glitter-punk rock star…who actually is an extremely gifted assassin, sent to uncomplicated a lot of lives simply by ending hers. As the DNA test kit Siggy got sent in response to a junk mail advertisement offers alerted some extremely dangerous people to the fact of Siggy’s lifetime, and a marvelous heritage she didn’t understand was hers.

Bane, in her debts, allows Siggy to escape-for now. Newly homeless, jobless, and perpetually friendless, Siggy takes the main one avenue available to her; she travels to Alaska to meet up the grandfather who has reached out to her. Siggy isn’t sure what kind of reunion she might expect, but she certainly isn’t prepared for the truth of Alaska, shabby and breathtaking simultaneously, or the challenging dance of adoption reunion. Or seafood head soup. Or a whirlpool in the river that leads towards the Underworld…as well as the answers to concerns she didn’t even know she had. In order to learn who-and what-she really is, and in order to extra her young niece the same fate she’d experienced as a kid, Siggy must happen to be the Underworld and meet up with the grandmother who’d been waiting there on her behalf, become a raven, technique a witch, and convince an arch-demon to make her a tool fit for any hero.