Sometimes promises made in the past must be broken to protect the future…

Meg Perri knows how to stage an unforgettable show. She has spent her life behind the scenes of her concert venue, The Altar, manipulating sounds and perfectly framing musicians with dynamic lighting and melodic smoke. She controls it all, and the audience loves it.

But there is one thing in Meg’s life she cannot control: her destiny. Born into a long line of Reapers, Meg has always known that one day she will ascend and take her place as the guardian of the Gates of Sempiternity to guide wandering souls into the Immortal Realms. It is a future she cannot escape, no matter how hard she tries to avoid it with her backstage life.

When the Gates mysteriously fracture under her watch, creatures spill into the Mortal Realm, and her best friend is abducted amidst the chaos. Thrust into ascension alongside a band of unlikely allies, Meg is forced to fight enemies beyond her training or risk losing everyone she cares about to the very realm she was fated to protect.