With this sequel to the Nebula Award-nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that NY Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire known as “exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted,” Millie unwillingly comes back to the Arcadia Task when an impossible and deadly situation pulls her back in.

Four months ago, Millie still left the Arcadia Project after losing her partner Teo to the lethal magic of the Unseelie fey countess. Right now, in a final trip to the picture of the crime, Millie and her previous employer about Phantom Pains Caryl encounter Teo’s tormented ghost. But there’s one issue: relating to Caryl, ghosts don’t exist.

Millie includes a new lease of life, a stressful work, and no time to get pulled back to the Project, but she agrees to show her side from the ghost story to the real estate agents from your Project’s National Headquarters. During her go to though, tragedy strikes when among the agents is usually gruesomely murdered in a way only Caryl could have achieved. Millie understands Caryl is definitely innocent, however the just way to save lots of her from your Project’s serious, off-the-books justice is normally to find the strange culprits that may only be seen whenever they desire to be seen. Millie must resolve the mystery not only to save lots of Caryl, but also to foil an insidious, arcane terrorist story that would keep two worlds in ruins.