Astrid Silverhart is no ordinary girl. With a snap of her fingers, she can bend space itself - though she would rather sleep in than save the world. Raised by her grandfather, Eryndor Silverhart, once the disciple of the legendary Seraphine the Saint, Astrid grows up surrounded by whispers of greatness and betrayal. Seraphine, the most powerful mage in history, was destroyed by the one person she trusted most - and her death left a scar that time has never healed. After her grandfather's death on his sickbed, she is faced by overwhelming grief and sets forths to Seraphine academy - a school that was built dedicated to the fallen saint. Astrid faces many trials with her friends... though she'd rather sleep...

In the humid, moss-choked darkness of 2003 Louisiana, the St. Roch Syndicate dispatches its most reluctant assets to a derelict summer camp deep in the Atchafalaya Basin. Tess Beauvais, a twenty-three-year-old sorceress drowning in student debt, and Anaïs Chen, a twenty-two-year-old jaded medium, are tasked with a seemingly simple job: retrieve the lost research notes of a vanished Syndicate scientist. Their mission unravels when they cross paths with brothers, Rafe and Frazier. After bailing their father's friends out of jail, twenty-three-year-old Rafe and twenty-year-old Frazier devise a devious plan to get their mercenary patriarch out of the country - only to be ensnared in a nightmare far beyond his depth. The camp is ruled by the Vigneauxs - an unhinged brood obsessed with the grotesque, who breed unnatural beasts in the wetlands, collect bones for unspeakable experiments, and feed trespassers to the horrors lurking beneath the cypress trees. Now Tess, Anais, Rafe and Frazier are marked as the next main course. With their luck running out and monsters closing in, the quartet are forced into a bitter alliance. Each must decide how much of their soul they're willing to trade - whether to outrun the camp's hungry shadows, or become something monstrous themselves. In the end, only the land will remember what is sacrificed to survive a season of sour earth.