Merlot Elfhallow escaped her abusive past to open her own bakery in one of the Threefold Kingdoms, yet she wasn't at peace for long. Köd Kunta, or better known as the Night Realm had been proposed for war. Even though the kingdoms had the Threefold daemons on their side, and the numbers, the Night Realm was a ghastly place full of exalted deities and malicious creatures, all under the Pale King's rule. In the middle of a war with a tainted name, Merlot seeks the aid of a Silver Sentinel of Safety that had helped her in the past. Slipping into the wrong hands, Merlot is bought and traded off to the creatures of the shadowland and ends up beneath the Pale King's glare. He covets one thing from Merlot: her eyes. Befriending an entity in the Pale King's staff, Merlot does her best to escape the shadowland with both of her eyes intact.

Starting sophomore year at a new, fancy private school isn't exactly what Raven wants, but she feels private school is the only place for her. An outcast in most social circles she finds new friends at Village Prep, and school for gifted students. Somethings off about this school though. You know, on account of a sober girl drowning in the shallow pool just outside the school. Raven gets the feeling the school is covering it up. Rumor flies. People start to disappear, and she finds herself in the middle of it. What is happening at Village Prep?

She's strange and closed off from everyone. Alina finds her fascinating. She sees this dark-eyed woman at her work nearly every day. She always orders a black coffee. Alina thinks about her fondly. That is until something horrible happens, and those fond thoughts turn to terror.