"Two will love you. One will bring you ruin and death, the other, life and salvation. Who you choose will change the destiny of our entire world."
When a plague breaks out and the barriers of the United Alliance are destroyed, Valaria Black Blood, heiress to the Blood Regency of Life, must leave her city, her home, and go into The After, a world of chaos and death. With the help of the most unlikely of allies, she must save her people, her cities, and a way of life that she's no longer sure she believes in.
In a post-apocalyptic world a curse has spread, leaving people with enhanced abilities. But with some people stronger than others this creates fear throughout the population, and with fear comes destruction.
Callie knows she has everything figured out. She can fight for herself and she is doing her duty to the innocent by capturing demons. But when she meets Baron and she becomes the very thing she has spent her life hunting, Callie will have to chose whether or not to trust what she knows or what she believes in.