Threads bind each and every being to their fate--romantically, platonically, mere contact with one another is dictated by a single string. Occulents are supernatural beings responsible for tying the existence of humanity into one, cohesive knot--frightening creatures with five tattoos of the All Seeing Eyes dotted across their skin, and golden shears as weapons. Magister in training, Zorah Haldis is well on her way towards obtaining her second All Seeing Eye, when a series of events take a turn for the worst. Her own threads that trap her power as an Occulent begin to unravel as an impending darkness threatens to cut all that bind.