Seventeen-year-old spirit medium Emily Chambers has a problem. In fact, she has many. As if viewing dead people isn’t a big enough social drawback, she also offers to cope with an escaped demon and a good looking ghost with a secret past. And there’s the question of her parentage. Getting born an entire yr after her father’s loss of life (yes, a 12 months) and without the pale skin of other respectable English girls, Emily is as much a mystery as the inactive boy assigned to her.

Jacob Beaufort’s heart continues to be struggling to crossover since his death. It might have got something regarding the actual fact he was murdered. Or it might not really. All he understands is, he continues to be assigned with the Otherworld’s administrators to a woman named Emily. A woman who can easily see and touch him. A girl who released a shape-shifting demon in to the mortal world. Together they need to send the demon back again before it wreaks havoc on London. It ought to be a simple task, but they soon learn there’s nothing simple whenever a live girl and a lifeless guy fall in like.